Darling Arithmetic

by Villagers

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oldworldjames Everything I Am Is Yours. Favorite track: Everything I Am Is Yours.

Edward Herbers I first heard Villagers on the Big Little Lies soundtrack, and I've been hooked ever since. This album is haunting and beautiful. Favorite track: Dawning On Me.

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1.	Courage 04:47	info	buy track
2.	Everything I Am Is Yours 03:30	info	buy track
3.	Dawning On Me 03:19	info	buy track
4.	Hot Scary Summer 04:20	info	buy track
5.	The Soul Serene 04:10	info	buy track
6.	Darling Arithmetic 03:42	info	buy track
7.	Little Bigot 03:49	info	buy track
8.	No One To Blame 03:35	info	buy track
9.	So Naïve 04:58	info	buy track

about

Darling Arithmetic is the third album from Villagers, released on 13th April 2015. The follow-up to Conor O’Brien’s debut, Becoming a Jackal, and its successor, Awayland - both hugely acclaimed and Mercury-nominated - is a breathtakingly beautiful, intimate album entirely about love and relationships.

Darling Arithmetic was written, recorded, produced and mixed by O’Brien at home - the loft of a converted farmhouse that he shares in the coastal town of Malahide to the north of Dublin - revealing a single-minded artist at the peak of his already considerable songwriting powers. It encompasses the various shades of feeling – desire, obsession, lust, loneliness and confusion, and deeper into philosophical and existential territory, across a cast of lovers, friends, family and even strangers. Backing up his supple and emoting vocal and guitar is the subtlest palate of instrumentation – piano, Mellotron (which accounts for the album’s occasional horn and cello tones) and brushes. O’Brien plays every instrument on these exquisite, melodic songs in a sparse, spacious, acoustic-leaning fashion.

On Darling Arithmetic, O’Brien doesn’t only pare back his use of language but looks deep into his own heart and motives. The opening track and first single, ‘Courage’, concerns the most important kind of love – for yourself: “It took a little time to get where I wanted / It took a little time to get free / It took a little time to be honest / It took a little time to be me.”

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released April 13, 2015

2015, Domino Recording Co Ltd

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May 11

Rough Trade East

London, UK
May 12

Rough Trade Bristol

Bristol, UK
May 13

Resident Music

Brighton, UK
May 16

Rough Trade Liverpool

Liverpool, UK
May 24

Caja Mágica

Madrid, Spain
May 27

Ancienne Belgique (AB)

Brussels, Belgium
May 28

Paradiso Grote Zaal

Amsterdam, Netherlands
May 29

LantarenVenster

Rotterdam, Netherlands
May 30

Christianskirche Altona

Hamburg, Germany
Jun 1

Passionskirche Kreuzberg

Berlin, Germany
Jun 2

Luxor

Cologne, Germany
Jun 3

La Maroquinerie

Paris, France
Jun 5

Wylam Brewery

Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Jun 6

Leeds Irish Centre

Leeds, UK
Jun 8

Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre

London, UK
Jun 14

Eridge Park

Tunbridge Wells, UK
Jun 29

Trinity College

Dublin, Ireland
Jul 5

Down the Rabbit Hole

Beuningen, Netherlands
Jul 26

Ludlow Castle

Ludlow, UK
Aug 2

Festival Dranouter

Dranouter, Belgium

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