"Raise Well" is the poignant new video from Luke Sital-Singh, available on new album,A Golden State, out now on Raygun Records via The Orchard. His third album, A Golden State was produced byTommy McLaughlin (Villagers, Soak) and recorded in Portland's Jackpot Studios, famously set up by Elliott Smith. A Golden State contains previous singles "The Last Day", "Los Angeles", "Lover" and "Love Is Hard Enough Without The Winter". Enjoy the album in all formats HERE.
Elegant and emotive, "Raise Well" is a song about potential fatherhood. "I'm not having a kid, but I think about it a lot," says Luke. "My wife Hannah and I have been married for so long, we've got a groove going, but this is the point where you buy a house... have a kid... or move to America."
Something Luke and Hannah recently accomplished when they relocated from
Bristol to Los
Angeles in January. The title of the new album reflects this new chapter, and a new mindset; at its most basic A
Golden State is an album of
California dreaming. The cover artwork, created by Hannah, a four-colour lino cut of the Venice Beach canals, is taken from her upcoming art book, 'Coastline'.
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Golden State has received praise from The Times, BlackBook, PopMatters, Glide, CLASH, The Bluegrass Situation and Atwood Magazine, who says, "Within its dreamy reflections and poignant wanderings is an invigorated sense of hope and renewal."
Opening track "Lover" is an enveloping embrace of a song written after he undertook a road trip along the Californian coast with Hannah. "It was a beautiful journey, but there was quite a lot of bickering," says Luke. "I write my work about the bickering, she does hers about the amazing scenery."
The desire for change is also impregnated in "Love Is Hard Enough Without The Winter", a skeletal, delicate blues reflecting on emotional wanderlust. "It's a song about yearning for something a bit sunnier during the cold winter months," he says. "Yearning for more light, for that thing that keeps a relationship lit."
Then there's "The Last Day", the unbearably poignant lead single, which has already had much love at radio and is not so much about death as the anticipation thereof. "This is the thing: I do seem to write a lot about loss and mourning. I'm... not obsessed," he decides, "but it seems to move me, the idea of dying."
Of the album, Luke concludes, "Overall, there is this ethereal, positive vibe, without being too cheesy. There is an Americana fantasy, of wanting to escape to this gorgeous place, but also about what I'm escaping from."
Luke Sital-Singh released his debut single "Fail For You" in 2012, introducing the world his deft ability to craft songs with a mesmerizing, piercing emotional quality. The song went on to be featured in numerous TV shows includingGrey's Anatomy. At the end of 2013, Sital-Singh was featured in the BBC's Sound of 2014 list and released his debut record
The Fire Inside later that year.
After a couple of years touring the world and opening for artist such as Villagers, The Staves,
Martha Wainwright and Angus and Julia Stone, in 2017 Sital-Singh released his critically-acclaimed sophomore record Time Is A Riddle. The album's lead single "Killing Me" has had 10m plays on Spotify, and Luke's combined streams since 2015 are at almost 120m.
In April 2018, Luke was invited to give a TED Talk at the official TED conference in Vancouver. Luke spoke about the cathartic effect of writing and performing 'sad' songs, and performed two tracks. The event proved the catalyst for Luke to finish the set of songs he'd been slowly, painfully writing for this album.
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