Conchúr White has announced the release of his debut album Swirling Violets out 19 January 2024 via Bella Union.

The first LP from the Armagh singer-songwriter promises to be an allusive and intimate project.

“There wasn’t a conscious theme, though the songs operate in the same sort of space, that sense of surrealism,” said White on the album.

“There are ghosts, there’s other worlds. There’s a cosmic feeling, questions about the beginning and the end and dreams. And then there’s simpler songs, love songs about the feelings of infatuation you have when you’re young.”

Accompanying the announcement is the first single from the project ‘I Did Good Today’, a song which ebbs between impressionistic lyrics and luminous backdrops.

“'I Did Good Today' is a song about craving validation but understanding that such approval can come at the expense of honesty or integrity,” said white on the track.

“Musically I reference the likes of Midlake, Aldous Harding and Bleachers,” he added. “The track was recorded in a Belfast church with Producers Danny Morgan Ball and Kris Platt and mixed in London by Matt Wiggins.”

White has also announced a busy upcoming live schedule, which includes a support show with Margaret Glaspy at London’s Omeara tomorrow, support dates with John Grant & Richard Hawley on their upcoming tour playing the songs of Patsy Cline, and finally, shows with The Magnetic Fields in Europe in November.

White is a music graduate who has also worked alongside young peoplewith mental health issues.

His musical story began in bands as he played in in atmospheric indie-rockers Silences, before their split allowed Conchúr to develop his solo voice at his own pace- a sense of freedom which colours the songwriter’s music.