Luke Sital-Singh’s New Album ‘Fool’s Spring’ Out Now

Today, singer, songwriter and producer Luke Sital-Singh shares his fifth full-length album, Fool’s Spring, which includes the rollicking new single “Little River,” an uncharacteristically upbeat track from a musician who once gave a TED Talk on the power of sad songs inspired by becoming a new father. Listen to “Little River” HERE.

Listen to Fool’s Spring Here: https://lukesital-singh.ffm.to/foolsspring

Of the inspiration for “Little River,” Luke says: “This record came from a chaotic time for me and my family. Through it all, ‘Gone Fishing’ was a lifeline – the scenery, the humour, the love/hate banter of Mortimer & Whitehouse. For an hour each week it was like hanging with two old mates and nothing else mattered. Seemed only right to nod to it in the world of ‘Little River.’”

A sparkling, self-produced collection that runs the gamut from “sad ABBA” to yacht rock, Fool’s Spring is Luke’s most musically eclectic collection to date. The songs take listeners through his 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.

This is, in part, a reference to the struggles that the musician and his wife had with starting a family. They tried for a baby whilst living in LA, to no avail, so eventually they decided to return to the UK to see if their luck might change, where they’d also be supported by old friends and family.

“So much was happening in my life which meant this record was just happening in the background over a long period of time,” explains Luke. “And I didn’t feel like I was getting anywhere until I looked back and realized: ‘Oh, that’s actually half the record finished…’ So there was a lot of uncertainty and unsurety with making this one – but also a lot of enjoyment at the same time, because there was nobody else. I was literally on my own. I was making every decision.”

His journey back home had the desired outcome – Luke and his wife welcomed their first child last July. “Now, as the album is being released, 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.”

Luke first introduced Fool’s Spring 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”, the adventurous “Saint & Thief,” the image-rich ballad  “Santa Fe”, a duet with Irish musician Lisa Hannigan, and the playful and quietly glorious “In Your Eyes,” co-written with long-time collaborator Matt Hales (Aqualung).

These new songs follow his acclaimed 2022 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, No Depression, 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.”