Ahead of her performance at Ireland Music Week in October, beloved Irish indie artist Maria Kelly shares new single ‘Slump,’ out now via Veta Records.

The soft acoustic song acknowledges the difficulties of finding yourself stuck in a rut—“I feel the weight of every word I say / It’s heavy”—through a self-deprecating lens.

She says of the song: “‘Slump’ felt like the right place to begin when thinking about how to roll out this next project. It captures a starting point—finding myself, once again, at the beginning of a mountain to climb, with no real will to climb it. It began on guitar, but once Matt and I got to the studio, it felt like the lyrics required more humour in the sound. It landed in this funny twee universe that I think pokes fun at that self-deprecating space we can all find ourselves in.”