Sorcha Richardson - First Prize Bravery

Pre-Order my new album Draw the Outline out 11th September 2026. Featuring the singles Grenadine and Illinois Again: https://ffm.to/drawtheline-sorcha-ric... Track 06: First Prize Bravery To me, this feels like the saddest and most complex song on the album but I haven't fully figured out how to articulate why. I've been asked to talk about it a lot in interviews over the last few weeks and I honestly don't know if any of my answers made sense lol. Really this is a song about hope and disappointment and wishing you had the bravery to face up to your own demons, and admiring the people in your life who do. I wrote a lot of this song in my bedroom in Dublin. Initially, I was trying to make it sound like something that would fit on the last Feist album (which I was pretty obsessed with at the time). I scrapped and restarted the demo a few times that day but once I wrote the bass line, it came together pretty quick. I told Alex I wasn't sure about the chorus, and maybe it needed to be 'bigger', but he said it was his favourite chorus on the album, which obviously made me rethink replacing it. Now I’m so glad I listened him. The synth in the last chorus is from a broken casio that Alex recorded into a vocal mic because none of the inputs would work. I think it was the first song we finished, one that we’d listen to sometimes when the other songs were fighting back. Video by Andrew Keyser