New albums from Villagers and Orla Gartland are set to make strong debuts on this week's Official Irish Albums Chart. Indie-folk band Villagers, fronted by Conor O'Brien, are battling for the top spot with new album Fever Dreams against Olivia Rodrigo's Sour, with the Dublin act currently at Number 2 in today's sales flash (August 24).
Villagers' fifth album - recorded with a full band and several guest singers - follows 2018's The Art Of Pretending To Swin, which peaked at Number 2.
Villagers have so far landed three chart-toppers in Ireland, with Becoming A Jackal (2010), Awayland (2013), and Darling Arithmetic (2015).
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