Orchids are a unique project featuring some of the best female/non-binary vocalists from Northern Ireland and brings together some of the finest musicians, producers, engineers, mix and mastering engineers to create an album that stands alone as a creative endeavour. This massive undertaking began following the dissolution of a previous project. Songwriter and guitarist Michael Smyth was left with 9 recorded songs, featuring Emma Rose on bass and Matthew Milner on drums, but in need of vocals. Unwilling to let these songs wither and die on the vine, Michael sought a solution that would give the songs the audience they deserved and a way to breathe new life into them. Written with a female vocal in mind, Michael made the decision to reach out to a number of female/non-binary vocalists from Northern Ireland, inviting them to lend their considerable talents to the music and feature on a number of different tracks.

The result is an explorative alt-rock album, each song given its own identity by its’ respective vocalists unique voice and perspective, but tied together by the consistency of a band having spent countless hours in a practice space running songs over and over so they become second nature. The self-titled album is grandiose and questing, songs range from the mid-west emo drive of ‘Memoria’, to the expansive and emotional ‘Run’, to delicate melodic alt-rock of ‘Sins’.

The fantastic new album is out now on all streaming. For fans of Sparta, At The Drive-In, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Wolf Alice, Texas is the Reason, Jimmy Eat World, Thursday, Sunny Day Real Estate,




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