Irish singer Sorcha Richardson’s latest single is a shimmering song entitled ‘Shark Eyes’. The track is taken from her upcoming album Smiling Like An Idiot, which explores Richardson’s pursuit of happiness. Namely, her experience of falling in love simultaneously with a person and a place.
‘Shark Eyes’ opens with lulling piano chords, creating a comforting and almost watery dreamscape. The perfect sonic setting for us to lose ourselves in Richardson’s fantasies as she sings about being caught in an unrequited infatuation.
The musicality and repetitive bell-like tolls lap over the listener, pulling us deeper into her narrative. The building layers of instrumentation combined with floating vocals gives the song a strong cinematic feel to it. The song slips between moody verses to the bridge that ripples with excitement: “everything from here’s about to change”. ‘Shark Eyes’ builds up momentum to the euphoric yet bittersweet chorus as Richardson sighs “we were nothing at all, we were everything”.
Richardson leans into her crush ‘Shark Eyes’. Instead of trying to move on from her feelings, she allows herself to follow her desires and imagine a different outcome. Ruminating on the meaning of the track she says “It’s about following your darker and more destructive impulses and allowing yourself to be taken for a bit of a ride, partly out of boredom and curiosity, but also partly out of a lingering hope that maybe this time it will end differently.”
Alongside the release of ‘Shark Eyes’ Richardson has announced her new album, Smiling Like An Idiot will be released on September 23rd, pre-save the album here. If September seems a bit too long of a wait, she also has a few shows coming up in Ireland this month, details for those can be found here.
Words by Ella McLaren
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