Dinner Party sees Niall again within the kitchen with long-time collaborators John Ryan, Julian Bunetta, Ian Franzino, Andrew Haas and Jamie Scott, the particular recipe that is formed a lot of his solo work.
Ahead of its launch, we pull up a chair with Nialler for a chinwag and an ✨unique✨ First Listen to the tune.
Bon appetit!
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Over the previous decade as a solo artist, which has seen Niall rating 9 Top 40 singles and two Official Number 1 albums, he is honed, and elevated, his signature sound: heat, rootsy guitar-led pop suited to dive bars and stadium present spectacles alike. There’s a common attraction so few artists possess, and that is no extra obvious than on Dinner Party.
From the opening chords, that is unmistakably a Niall Horan document: breezy acoustic guitar over that ethereal, ’70s-style plate reverb.
“Picking up boxes with our teeth, playing games we never played before.”
“Knives, forks, and things I’ve never felt before…”
Almost the definition of ‘going analog’ (everybody’s at it), there is a distinctive, comforting humanity to Niall’s lyricism.
There’s magnificence within the fundamental. Romanticising the common’s really actually enjoyable, particularly when the hook’s as irresistible as Dinner Party’s.
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“Crashing lights when you first saw me, yeah I met you at a dinner party. Chandeliers, 2am coffee, yeah I met you at a dinner party.“
Even the very idea of a serendipitous ‘IRL’ assembly feels considerably cinematic in a chaotic world of courting app disasters.
“One kiss on your neck, it was so concrete, I’m done looking for somebody. Behind closed doors, things I’ve never felt before…“
Chatting to Official Charts, Niall says: “Dinner Party is a thank you to the past and a hello to the present, covering the big life events and the small, sometimes messy, in-between moments that actually make them up.”
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Dinner Party serves because the title monitor to Niall’s upcoming fourth solo album, launched June 5.
On the LP, Niall tells Official Charts: “Much of the album explores that tug of war between falling in love while being terrified of losing them and how that risk is actually the best part. There’s love, intimacy, fear, loss, hope, dreams – all wrapped together across it.”
Niall Horan’s new single Dinner Party is launched Friday March 20. Dinner Party, the album, is launched Friday June 5.
