Written on the precipice of a break-up, “Time Difference” captures a moment of realisation as two lovers find their lives veering in opposite directions. Personal and poignant, the track was written in the middle of a run of dates with Will Varley in 2018, as Ailbhe began to embrace the out-of-hours lifestyle demanded of a touring musician. 

Also released today, the sweet “Time Difference” video sees Ailbhe team-up with her old friend and videographer Ciaran O’Brien. Looking at the track’s themes through a lighthearted lens, the video was filmed in Dublin over two days and stars Ailbhe as she navigates her way through a series of jobs with anti-social hours, seemingly trapped out-of-sync with the rest of the world. 

As Ailbhe says: “I wanted to represent that feeling of being on a different schedule to everyone else by showing what it would be like if I worked an office job. I spent a lot of my early twenties working in offices while playing late night gigs in Dublin so it was just having a bit of fun with that idea.”