Callum Orr releases debut album The Trials of Knowing

Dublin singer-songwriter Callum Orr has released his indie-rock debut album The Trials of Knowing today.

The record was co-produced by Orr and Ailbhe Reddy, was recorded between Asta Kalapa studios in Wexford, his home in Dublin 7, and various other spaces in Dublin. It follows the singer’s journey from the darkness of nihilism into the light of love and life’s joys.

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The Trials of Knowing follows the release of Orr’s latest single ‘Floorboards’, which came out June 28 and was described by the artist as exploring “the feeling of emptiness when all the things I find meaning in—friendship, family, reading, exercise, meditation—cease working, and I’m left pulling up the metaphorical floorboards looking for more meaning and finding nothing there.”

The second single from the record, ‘As Long As I Have Time’, was featured as Hot Press’s Track of the Day, who called it “a glistening new track about budding romance that was inspired by the start of Callum’s long-distance relationship with his wife.”

Tickets for Orr’s upcoming album launch show in the Workman’s Cellar, set to take place on July 20, are available here.

Find the full tracklist of The Trials of Knowing below:

1. Prop
2. Floorboards
3. Crushing Machine
4. Dust
5. Homesick
6. The One Who Does Everything Slow
7. As Long As I Have Time
8. Hello Marianne
9. Keeping Faith
10. God’s Breath