Singer-songwriter and producer Luke Sital-Singh has announced the release of his latest album “Fool’s Spring” on 21st February 2025. “Fool’s Spring” is a self-produced collection of 11 songs which it’s said run the gamut from “sad ABBA” to yacht rock. The songs set out 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, only for winter to return.
“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.”
These new songs follow Sital-Singh’s 2022 full-length album “Dressing Like A Stranger”, penned by the London-born songwriter as he moved halfway across the globe to Los Angeles just before the Covid lockdown. He since released the sparse “Strange Weather” EP (2023), one of whose tracks. ‘Hallelujah Anyway’, was described by AUK’s Andrew Frolish as “a timeless song that you could be absorbing years into the future”.
Sital-Singh will be performing an acoustic set at the Society of Golden Slippers evening at St Pancras Old Church on Thursday, 28th November 2024 Tickets can be found here. We have been told dates for a full UK tour in 2025 will be announced shortly.
Sital-Singh has also released the latest single from the new record, ‘Santa Fe’, a duet with acclaimed Irish artist Lisa Hannigan. It is a ballad inspired by Sital-Singh realising that his time on the US West Coast, 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 London to continue their journey towards expanding their family. “I think I remember slightly weeping when I was writing that,” he says. “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 Yosemite, on the beach, walking down our road. All these quite specific images and road names and places”. Listen to it below.
