Beloved Irish indie artist Maria Kelly shares her sophomore album Waiting Room on Friday, February 28th, 2025. Maria’s signature gossamer sound reaches new, bolder heights on an LP that also sees her reclaiming control over her life.
Waiting Room follows four years after Maria’s 2021 debut album The Sum of the In-between. Detailing the intricacies of her own mental health journey, the record quickly found its home, amassing millions of Spotify streams, as well as ten million radio impacts within its first few weeks. The LP rallied support from the likes of Notion, Clash, and Totally Dublin along the way. It now sits at more than six million streams worldwide, with one track, ‘someone else’, soundtracking the trailer for hit TV series Conversations With Friends. Previously, Maria has shared stages across Europe with the likes of KT Tunstall, Orla Gartland, James Vincent McMorrow, Villagers, Tom Odell, Ezra Williams, and more.
The Waiting Room is both a very real place, as Maria found herself stuck in sterile clinics hoping for answers to inscrutable chronic pain, and a dream-like, surreal space representing her own inner world. “This album is an exploration of the roadblocks, both internally and externally, that keep us feeling powerless and taking away our agency,” Maria explains. Beyond Ireland’s oblique quagmire of a health system, Maria ruminates on the housing crisis, societal expectations, faded friendships, and more—all through a personal lens, but communicated with a poetic universality as only a double Aquarius can.
Maria Kelly announces headline at The Unitarian Church, Dublin
Friday, 11th April 2025
Tickets from €23.00 including booking fees available on Friday, 29th November at 10amFrom www.singularartists.ie
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