American singer, songwriter and vocalist, Orlando Weeks, has announced his new studio album Hop Up.
Hop Up is the singer’s second studio album. Its title means being a buoyant, idiophonic representation of the spirit that it contains.
Announcing the album which is scheduled for release on January 14th, 2022 — via his Instagram page, Weeks described the album as “a celebration record. A best case scenario, revel in it, UP record.”
He added that fans should be expecting more tracks as single off the album. “Between now and then [announced date and release date] expect some more music from it and some LIVE bits n pieces.”
Weeks wrote the songs at home before spending two sessions, each spanning three weeks, with the producer, solo artist and Deek Recordings founder Bullion.
Bullion helped Weeks hone in on a specific, open-hearted approach to leftfield pop: very natural, warm instrumentation manipulated in imaginative ways.
Orlando Weeks’ debut solo album ‘A Quickening’ catalogued the emotions and expectations that accompany imminent parenthood: anxieties and anticipation, hopes and fears, a monumentally personal yet also an undeniably universal experience.
On reflection, however, its focus was on expectancy: the small wonders of new life were left largely unspoken. As Weeks’ new reality took shape, it would be natural – expected, even – for his follow up to document what came next.
As the project took shape, Weeks’ creativity offered him a sense of self-preservation as the world became engulfed by the COVID pandemic; “It sounds trite saying it but writing the record, with that philosophy in mind, did become vaguely therapeutic. And if not therapeutic then it was a wonderful distraction. It was whatever the opposite of catharsis is. I wasn’t screaming to let everything out, I was just purposefully holding on to and cultivating moments that felt good.”
