Molly O'Mahony - Waiting On The World (2026) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Waiting On The World
02. Cold Water
03. Golden Thing
04. Let It Be Light
05. Strange Times
06. How Bright The Bird
07. Home Place
08. Cherish You
09. Blue-Eyed Girl
10. Starlight & Shadow

Waiting On The World is an album about love and life in a post-covid world. Teetering on the knife-edge between hope and despair, the album’s primary arc documents a relationship that takes place against the backdrop of a profoundly changed and polarised global landscape. Each song is a small world unto itself, a self-contained bead on a string of beads, speaking to a particular feeling, an atmosphere; a story of faith or torment. Sometimes I am the speaker in the song, sometimes I’m not. Characters emerge in certain instances who can tell it better than I.
Each song in its own way is an attempt to grapple with the gulf between the lunacy of the wider world, and the microcosm of my experiences; my felt sense of the increasing confusion, distortion and polarisation created by the media and the online realms, juxtaposed with the profound beauty of falling in love, healing old wounds, and feeling fully witnessed for the first time. I hope the album speaks to the utter preciousness of the latter experience, and says something worthwhile about how those whom we love are our only real lifeline in these turbulent times.

We are all in some state of anxiety, waiting on the world to do something, at this strange moment. Is it the beginning of the end? Or will the chips fall, the dust settle, and something green and new emerge? Waiting On The World is about holding fast in that uncertainty while feeling everything, and returning, always, to hope.