Lewis Watson - The Morning (2014)

In 2012, Lewis Watson self-released his debut EP ‘It’s Got Four Sad Songs On It, BTW’ which established a devoted online fan-base, and landed the then nineteen-year-old singer-songwriter a deal with Warner Bros. Records.

After headlining London’s Koko and playing two sets at last summer’s Glastonbury, Lewis Watson is now set to release his long-awaited debut album The Morning on June 16th.

The album demonstrates Lewis’s growing powers as a songwriter. It combines fully-realised reworkings of select songs that emerged as sketches on his early EPs (notably ‘Into The Wild’ and ‘Windows’) together with the best of the sixty unreleased songs that he wrote last year. The newer material – including the first single and instant grat track ‘Stay’, Holding On’, ‘Outgrow’ and ‘Castle Street’ – takes Lewis’s stripped-back guitar-and-voice roots and constructs a richer, more textured sound around him.

“I’m not a fan of just repackaging old material. The original EPs were meant to be works in progress. and these versions are much more polished,” he explains. “I wanted people to be able to see the journey of me as an artist and the evolution of the songs. It’s unorthodox, but I feel very lucky that I’ve had that opportunity.”