Sorcha Richardson returns with new single “Grenadine”

SORCHA RICHARDSON RETURNS WITH “GRENADINE”

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“Sorcha scores heaps of charm and charisma on this full-length debut”
– DIY

“Brilliant… reminiscent of Courtney Barnett’s stream of conscious delivery”
– The FADER

“cinematic, relatable and completely and utterly heartwrenching.”
– The Line Of Best Fit

“extraordinary”
– CLASH

“a mix of wistful nostalgia and pounding, raucous jams”
– NYLON

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Today, Dublin-born singer-songwriter Sorcha Richardson returns with a ruminative new single titled “Grenadine”.

With just two albums to her name, Richardson has been making a name for herself as one of Ireland’s most magnetic songwriters. The last few years have seen her on a remarkable ascent that includes landing a Choice Music Prize nomination for her debut album “First Prize Bravery”, before reaching a #4 position in the Official Irish Album Charts and topping the Irish Independent Albums Chart for its follow up “Smiling Like An Idiot”. In that time, she’s amassed more than 80 million streams, has earned fans in everyone from Gwyneth Paltrow and Chloe Grace-Moretz to Ellie Goulding, racked-up widespread plaudits from the likes of The Guardian and BBC Radio 6 Music, and toured around the world both as a headliner (including a packed out Barbican show), and as a special guest for Mitski, Dodie, Villagers, Snow Patrol, and more.

Having debuted some new material last month in a blistering performance for Other Voices at St. James Church in Dingle, “Grenadine” marks the first official taste of what comes next for Richardson. Written in West Kerry and recorded in Belfast by Chris Ryan (Chalk, Just Mustard, New Dad), the track shows Richardson at her most confident and contemplative, combining warm guitars with atmospheric Hammond organs, and hook-led introspective lyrics that examine life’s slow burning trajectory, and the creeping realisation that things aren’t perhaps what they seem on the surface.

Speaking on the single, Richardson says, “’Grenadine’ is kind of a crisis of faith… in myself, in relationships, in what I thought to be true about life. Sometimes life’s most devastating moments occur so quietly as to trick you into thinking nothing’s changed at all. It takes a long time to make sense of it. This is a way of reaching for things you still know to be true, no matter how small, to ground yourself in rocky waters.”

LISTEN TO “GRENADINE” HERE

With more new music planned for 2026 and much anticipation building among fans, “Grenadine” stands as a statement of intent: Sorcha Richardson’s most powerful, emotionally precise, and inward-facing material is yet to come.