Dublin singer songwriter D. Cullen has released his new single Radio, a tribute to the power of music and how listening to the radio became a source of solace for him during the pandemic.
"The lyrics to Radio speak to the huge distress I felt in 2021," D. says. "As with most of us, I was locked down, isolated from friends and family, and without any outlets or release from all of the world's stress.
"The one thing that kept me going was being able to dive into my record collection, dive into great music, and dive into the radio. Music is the most invaluable method of escape, and this song is a tribute to that."
D. hunkered down in the studio with Conor McLoughlin (Sick Love) engineering and Roger Bechirian (Bell X1/Elvis Costello) mixing. D. laid down all of the instruments in a day (bar a drum sample from Binzer Brennan which opens the song), before Rebecca Geary (Conor’s bandmate) and Sinead McConville recorded the three-part harmony in the chorus.
Radio is taken from D. Cullen’s forthcoming debut album, Sing My Story, Tell My Song, which is in the middle of a crowdfunding campaign on IndieGogo. The album will be released in Autumn 2022.
