Folk artist Callum Orr gives himself over to the raw optimism of falling in love on his new single ‘As Long As I Have Time’. The song is the second off his debut album The Trials of Knowing, which will be released on 12th July and be celebrated with a launch show at the Workman’s Cellar on 20th July. Tickets are available here.
The single is littered with evocative details—“porridge and Chet Baker”—from when Orr and his wife first began their relationship. Radiating hope, ‘As Long As I Have Time’ is comparatively stripped-back next to Orr’s first single off the album, ‘Crushing Machine’. Orr’s voice is joined by that of co-producer Ailbhe Reddy, along with lush, sweet strings that he arranged.
Orr says of the track: “I wrote this in 2020 when I met my now-wife online, and we conducted this nuts long-distance relationship without ever having met, because she lived in Canada. I was stuck living on my own during lockdown, but feeling this immense sense of excitement and meaning with a new relationship.”
Orr writes blunt and confessional folk songs with a strong sense of melody and intricate guitar arrangement. He played Ireland Music Week in 2019 and released the EP Cathy & Places in 2020 to strong critical reception, as well as a sold out Unitarian Church launch. It’s a sentimental set of folk songs with a shared concept of the relation of place to memory.
Track Listing
Prop
Floorboards
Crushing Machine
Dust
Homesick
The One Who Does Everything Slow
As Long As I Have Time
Hello Marianne
Keeping Faith
God’s Breath
The lead single, ‘Crushing Machine’, was praised by The Last Mixed Tape as “a great sign of what’s to come in the debut album” and described as “gut-wrenching” on Hot Press.
The Trials of Knowing, co-produced by Orr and Ailbhe Reddy, was recorded between Asta Kalapa studios in Wexford, Orr’s home in Dublin 7, and various other spaces in Dublin. The album follows Orr’s journey from the darkness of nihilism into the light of love and life’s innumerable joys—however fleeting that life may be.
Photo Credit – Tadhg O’Brien