Ciaran Lavery shares new track/video ‘Everything Considered ‘ today, new album out 15th Nov

With the release of Ciaran Lavery’s upcoming ambitious new LP Light Entertainment out next month (15th November through Nettwerk), the acclaimed Northern Irish singer-songwriter has today shared the final single titled ‘Everything Considered’. Listen to the track here and watch the video below.

“‘Everything Considered’ deals with the rising levels of dissatisfaction expressed universally through what is felt as inadequate leadership, whether that be in relationships or via governmental powers, and our yearning to connect, to understand and to be understood,” Lavery explained. “We live in a time where vanity and the idea of self-worth has never been greater, hence the opening looping mantra “I love myself, most of all. Most of all, I love myself”, though we also have a lack of control over the decisions that frustrate the most. The song also deals with self-wallowing and repetition of bad decisions as a mechanism to steer into old habits to numb the feelings of helplessness.”

Ciaran Lavery – Everything Considered (Official Music Visualiser)

The latest track follows on from the previous rousing single ‘Ctrl Alt Del‘ featuring the enigmatic English musician Liz Lawrence, which has received spins on BBC 6 Music by Huw Stephens and Nick Grimshaw.

Light Entertainment, Ciaran Lavery’s fifth album overall, is his most multi-layered and intriguing to date. With the upcoming record, he invites listeners into a world that is strange and fraught… not for the faint of heart. As Lavery explains, it is an “apocalypse record”, into which he has poured all of the paranoia, deceit, conflict and desperation that crashes like a tidal wave across our lives.

Catch Ciaran Lavery live next month, including unique concept show at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast, melding music and musical theatre together.

Ciaran Lavery is a Belfast-based, award-winning, multi-nominated singer-songwriter and musician who has released four acclaimed albums with well over 150 million streams to date. Lavery’s music has been nominated four times at the NI Music Prize, winning album of the year in 2016 for Let Bad In. He’s been the subject of praise from the BBC, The Telegraph, The Independent, CLASH, Hot Press, and more over the years.

Lavery wrote all 11 tracks on Light Entertainment in just over two weeks, recording it himself with friends Danny Ball and Dan Byrne-McCullough. As with his previous releases, there’s an undercurrent of the artist’s sly wit that – regardless of this being his self-proclaimed “apocalypse album” – keeps it from becoming bogged down in its own gloom. Few musicians are quite as self-aware as Lavery: with fellow Belfast native Joshua Burnside, he assesses his attitude towards the mainstream music industry and questions whether he’ll ever find his place in “an often brutal and callous world” on the track ‘We’re Looking For a Hit’. Lavery also dives into questions of faith, history and divisions in songs such as ‘Oh My God (No, Your God)’, while ‘Everything Considered’ reflects on those repeat behaviours we turn to as a coping mechanism to numb our feelings of helplessness.

The album ends with the anthemic ‘The World Will Put Its Arms Around You’, sending the listener spiralling back up towards the surface, propelled by skittering percussion and buoyant piano notes. “It exists as the hopeful hopelessness in a sea of paranoia, finger-pointing, anger and despair that has gone before,” Lavery says. Somehow, he manages to leave us with a message of defiance and hope, no matter how the world you see around you differs from the one you dreamt of. Hope, he says, is just about the only thing we have that persists.

Light Entertainment will be accompanied by an astonishing short film – directed by Shaun Doogan and Ciarán McCann, which represents (in a surreal fashion) what Lavery encapsulates on the album: how a constant stream of information (and misinformation), news, social media, images, video and entertainment leave us in a perpetually overwhelmed state. Watch the trailer here and below:

Watch & Share: Ciaran Lavery – Light Entertainment (Trailer)

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