In an interview with BBC Radio 2 yesterday (2 June), Sinead O’Connor announced that she will release a new album in 2022. According to Carson Daly post-interview with O’Connor, it is to be called ‘No Veteran Dies Alone.’ This will be her eleventh studio album and her first album in eight years after her 2014 release ‘I’m Not Bossy, I’m the Boss.’ She also previously spoke about it in an interview with The New York Times, sharing that it would be seven songs long. In this previous discussion about it, however, the project name had not yet been revealed.
The album announcement follows the release of her memoir, “Rememberings,” which tells the story of the Irish singer’s complicated life, from childhood abuse by her mother to her infamous protest on Saturday Night Live in 1992, where she ripped a picture of the pope on live TV. This would eventually lead to the boycott of her music and a shift in her career path.
Many considered the event to lead to the demise of her success as a musician, but O’Connor believes it allowed her to change her career path for the better. She explains that the real problem was misunderstanding the type of musician she was in the first place, saying, “my career was derailed by having a number one hit single that turned me into a pop star, which I wasn’t – I was a protest singer.”
Sinead O’Connor, who legally changed her name to Shuhada Sadaqat after converting to Islam, has not shared many details about the upcoming album. According to Official Charts, the album will be released in 2022 (originally scheduled for late 2021). It will be produced by Belfast musician David Holmes and its cover art will be created by Donegal illustrator Jacob Stack. The 54-year-old singer shared her enthusiasm about the collaboration on Twitter but the account has since been closed. Fortunately, the artwork wasn’t revealed in that tweet so there is no sneak peek that was deleted.
Since the pandemic began, she has kept more to herself, living alone just outside of Belfast. Though she enjoys this kind of living, she will step outside of her current comfort zone to go on tour this summer in the US, Ireland and Italy. She will also have another tour in summer of 2022 after the release of her new album, making stops in the US, Ireland and the Netherlands; she’s not sure how much longer touring will be in the cards for her after this.
In her interview with Carson Daly, she shared that touring is “a young person’s game..My soul and spirit are 17, and are certain of it, but my body thinks it’s 70.” Touring may be a young person’s game, but the singer currently has sold out shows that prove that listeners everywhere still want to hear more from her, and for now, she’s giving the people what they want.
