Sorcha Richardson

With just two albums to her name, Dublin-born singer-songwriter Sorcha 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 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.

With Draw The Outline (released September 2026), Sorcha Richardson leans into the softness of abstraction. Originally from Dublin, Richardson spent nearly a decade living in New York before returning to Ireland, eventually moving from Dublin to West Kerry a couple of years ago. The latter is a place shaped by quiet, at the foot of a mountain and a short walk from the sea, where life moves at a slower pace. In that stillness, the album gradually took form. It was, as she puts it, “a nice place to be.” Moving outside of the metropolis noise, Richardson discovered that life’s fervency exists in a different form. Musically, it might play at lower volume, while poetically, it reveals itself in unassuming moments like swimming in August sunlight or illuminating car rides – fleeting scenes that glow quietly within.

“‘Draw the Outline,’ to me, is kind of an instruction to start without needing to know where you’re going.” Lonely at times but never without warmth, the album carries a gentle insistence on empathy, and on the possibility that not knowing can be its own kind of clarity.