Luca Fogale BRITISH COLUMBIA SINGER-SONGWRITER AND 2X JUNO AWARD NOMINEE ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM CHALLENGER OUT VIA NETTWERK JAN 30, 2026
October 20, 2025 BY Bailey Vigliaturo
Today, anthemic indie folk artist Luca Fogale announces his forthcoming album Challenger, due out January 30 via Nettwerk. The album will serve as a follow-up to 2020’s Nothing is Lost and 2023’s Run Where the Light Calls, both of which scored nominations for Best Adult Contemporary Album at Canada’s JUNO Awards.
Challenger, like its predecessors, doubles as an emotional sanctuary. But unlike those releases, there’s now an edge: Here, Fogale, who produced the album himself, grapples with generational patterns, apathy, masculine ideals and social tumult. “There is a lot to be cynical about in this world,” he says. “But I’m trying hard to oscillate to the other side of that — toward trust, toward hope.”
On the album’s creation, he shares: “This album was born out of questioning who I have become and what has shaped me, and in turn, considering how much of my past is no longer serving me — how much I can challenge, and how much I can let go of. The more time I spend engaging with this life, the wider my lens for the world gets. It requires me to reflect on myself and hold myself accountable for who I am. It raises the bar for who I want to be.”
Also today, Luca shares the album’s latest single, “Horizon.” It’s his fifth single of 2025, following “Begin” in April, “Ashes” in June, “Lost Without You” in July and “For” in August. An unabashed love song, it swells into a bright chorus capturing his gratitude for his partner:
“Throughout the past few years,” he shares, “I have come to truly understand the depths of the love I’ve received and had the chance to offer, and how it’s given me the ability to know someone (and myself) with greater clarity than I ever thought possible. So many of the moments of joy and optimism that I feel in this life are because I have been pulled from times of darkness by unconditional love, and shown my worth and value through the eyes of someone else.”
The “Horizon” music video brings these ideas to life while also chronicling the evolution of Luca’s relationship with his faith. Raised Catholic, the video portrays Luca’s evolution away from the church and towards a more humanistic faith in love and life itself, which director Michael Makaroff illustrates by having present-day Luca relive childhood memories that shaped his understanding of who/what he could rely on.
A prolific touring artist known for eliciting emotional reactions from fans with warm, gentle vocals and raw, vulnerable lyrics, Luca will treat intimate audiences in Vancouver, Victoria, Calgary, and Toronto toa stripped-down performance of the album in November ahead of its release. This continues a busy year of touring, in which he’s completed headline tours in North America and Europe, and played six dates as direct support for Hollow Coves. Over his career, he’s played Vancouver’s massive Rogers Arena and shared stages with the likes of Dermot Kennedy, 7X JUNO winner Serena Ryder and Frazey Ford.
