Wallis Bird, the Co. Wexford singer-songwriter now resident in Berlin, returns with her fourth album, the electronica influenced Architect, and this soulful sparse single Hardly Hardly (the video here is the acoustic version).

While she's been compared to the likes of Ani di Franco, Janis Joplin, and Fiona Apple, the reality is that she's an artist impossible to pigeon-hole - while her Irish contemporaries have nearly always looked solely Westward to America, both for their influences and as a place to tour, Bird has toured extensively and recorded in Europe, adding a different dimension to her work that will make her outlast many of the current 'next big things'.

In interview Wallis Bird has described Architect as 'a return to the madness' of her first two albums - compared to the slowed down pace of her last record Wallis Bird (which, we at TMO loved - by the by)

Wallis Bird European Tour Dates - Spring 2014 5th May - Gera (GER) - Festival "Geraer Songtage" (Clubzentrum Comma)
6th May - Vienna (AUT) - Arena
7th May - Berlin (GER) - Postbahnhof
8th May - Frankfurt (GER) - St. Peter (Woman Of The World - Festival)
9th May - Cologne (GER) - Gloria
10th May - Hamburg (GER) - Mojo
11th May - London (UK) - Garage
13th May - Zurich (SUI) - Rote Fabrik
14th May - Milan (ITA) - La Salumeria Della Musica
15th May - Munich (GER) - Strom
16th May - Dresden (GER) - Beatpol
17th May - Linz (AUT) - Linzfest - FM4 Stage
18th May - Bielefeld (GER) - Forum
19th May - Haarlem (NL) - Patronaat - Kleine Zaal
4th June - Brussels (BE) - Rotonde @ Botanique
6th June - Saarburg (GER) - Burg Freudenberg
7th June - Mannheim (GER) - Seebühne
8th June - Beverungen (GER) - Orange Blossoms Festival