Our final Artist To Watch for 2024 is singer-songwriter/indie-pop rocker Orla Gartland, from Dublin, Ireland.
We’ve been playing the song “Little Chaos” from Orla’s recent LP Everybody Needs A Hero; it’s her second full-length album, but she’s been actively releasing singles and EPs since 2009 when she began performing on YouTube as a teenager.
Gartland grew up on a steady diet of Avril Lavigne and Brandi Carlile; her own songwriting has a pop/rock edge to it, but definitely leans atmospheric folk and pop/rock in the spirit of Joni Mitchell, Fleetwood Mac, and Kate Bush.
Gartland and the band came by WXPN Studios this fall to record an interview and session for an upcoming episode of World Cafe; she also played to a sold-out crowd at a fantastic Johnny Brenda’s show. We can’t wait to see more from her in the coming years.