Having underscored her status as one of Ireland’s most singular songwriting voices on her acclaimed debut album, Lilith, Naoise Roo returns with her highly-anticipated second album, Emotionally Magnificent, on 27th October.

Equally enthralling and exploratory - at turns personal and brimming with pathos - the eleven songs that make up the Dublin-raised artist’s full-length return delve deep into themes surrounding depression, the challenges of the music industry and the oppressive stereotypes that burden women experiencing mental illness.

Staring down reality with rare, forward-pushing power, it doubles as a new invitation to get on board with a vocalist and songwriter at her all-time most vital. For the album, the Belfast-based artist once again conspired with well-respected collaborators who have helped to define the sheer immersion of her sublime and shapeshifting sound to date.

1. Sick Girlfriend
2. Blackhole
3. Nobody Can Make Me Do What I Don’t Want To
4. Future Ghost
5. Whoever
6. Razor Sharp Shirt
7. Silent Halls
8. Sacred Cow
9. Falling Stars
10. Ocean
11. California

The highly imaginative, supremely sculpted sophomore album opens on the ethereally rhythmic Sick Girlfriend and the drumbeat-led Blackhole and then backs those up with the lushly orchestrated ebb and flow of the shimmering Nobody Can Make Me Do What I Don’t Want To, the languidly accessible tones within Future Ghost, and the industrially-sculpted Whoever.

Along next is the pulsating Razor Sharp Shirt and the alt-guitar rocker Silent Halls and they are in turn backed by the methodically organic Sacred Cow, the low slung, acoustic ballad Falling Stars, the recording rounding out on the slow trudge foot-tapper Ocean, closing on the atmospherically-charged California.

Produced by Liam Mulvaney (Girl Band, The Radio, Fionn Regan) with Jamie Hyland assisting (Gilla Band, Mhaol), Emotionally Magnificent features Daniel Fox (Gilla Band) on bass and guitar, Rian Trench (Solar Bears) on drums and synths and Karl Tobin on guitar. Paired with the sorcerous groundswell of Naoise Roo’s voice - which sits firmly centre-stage - highlights such as ‘Whoever,’ ‘Razor Sharp Shirt’ and ‘Nobody Can Make Me Do What I Don’t Want To’ are as carefully-crafted as they are exquisitely candid.

Released via North Carolina label Schoolkids Records, Emotionally Magnificent is offered as the culmination of a chapter of a journey that takes in both Lilith and Naoise Roo’s 2020 Sick Girlfriend EP, whose four tracks are incorporated here. Combined, it honors the full, sprawling majesty of Naoise Roo as a singular artist.

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