Prolific UK singer-songwriter and producer Luke Sital-Singh announces his new album, Fool’s Spring, will be released February 21, 2025. With this news, he shares latest single, “Santa Fe,” a rich and vivid duet with acclaimed Irish artist Lisa Hannigan. 

Fool’s Spring is a sparkling, self-produced collection of 11 songs that run the gamut from “sad ABBA” to yacht rock. His most musically eclectic album to date, the songs take listeners through Sital-Singh’s difficult personal journey over the past few years, punctuated with high highs and lower lows. The album title is a nod to this rollercoaster - the tease of impending spring, of hope, only for winter to return again.

“The poetry of thinking a dark time is over, only for it to return,” says Sital-Singh, “is something that resonates with the theme of the new album.”

“This album was written in the hardest season of my life, as my wife and I struggled to begin a family. Now, as the album is being announced, my son rests in my arms. I feel the weight of how life has shifted—these songs, written before everything changed, now ring out in a new world. Most of the songwriting doesn’t speak directly to our pain, but it feels like gazing at an eclipse through a homemade viewer. I couldn’t face it head-on, yet it filled my vision, casting its shadow over every note, shaping the songs in ways I’m only just beginning to see.”

The album was introduced with a rollicking soft-rock anthem called“Hold The Lightning,” which he co-wrote with rising songwriter/producer Jack Hardman and has called“the anchor song of the album.” He followed that with the warm, embracing“Firefight” and the quietly adventurous “Saint & Thief.

His latest offering, “Santa Fe” is a sweeping, image-rich ballad inspired by Sital-Singh realizing that his time in the western U.S., where he and his wife had spent the better part of 5 years, was coming to an end, and they would have to make the move back to the UK to continue their journey towards expanding their family.

“I think I remember slightly weeping when I was writing that,” he shares.

“Everything was getting a bit too much. It was about the LA dream and mourning that. The verses are scenes of things that we did – being in Y osemite, on the beach, walking down our road. All these quite specific images and road names and places. It is,” he admits, “a dejected kind of song.” 

These new songs follow British troubadour’s acclaimed 2022 full-length album Dressing Like A Stranger, an eleven-song collection penned by the London-born songwriter as he moved halfway across the globe to Los Angeles just before the world shut down. Throughout the album (his Nettwerk debut), Luke takes stock of newfound change on many fronts: distance from loved ones ("Rather Be" - a stunning duet with multi-platinum star Christina Perri), the complexities of belief("Me & God"- named a Best Song Of The Week selection by WNYC upon its release) and, most importantly, his quest to find optimism even on the darkest of days ("Summer Somewhere"). The album has over 10 million Spotify streams and received praise from NPR Music, Forbes, NoDepression, Under The Radar, WNYC and more. He then released the gorgeous and sparse Strange Weather EP (2023), which Glide described as “sweet, simple, and focused on honoring the song,”and American Pancake called “pure beauty.”

03.12.2024