Patrick Watson - To release album number seven

April 22nd 2022

Album Release

'Better in the Shade' is a nice surprise

Patrick Watson has announced a surprise new album 'Better in the Shade', his seventh full-length studio album set for digital release on April 22 via Secret City Records Worldwide. The news is accompanied by the first single to be taken from the album 'Height of the Feeling', which is available to hear now.

“'Height of The Feeling' is about using intimacy as a compass when you feel out of your skin, I sometimes just have trouble without affection to ground me. I don’t know if that’s good or bad, it just is. I was lucky to be able to co-write this with Ariel Engle from La Force. She’s so much fun to work with. We just did loads of improv takes on one mic and giggled together the whole time." - Patrick Watson

The track is taken from new album 'Better in the Shade', which arrives in just a few weeks time. This new recording appears after a prolific last couple of years, despite the Worldwide pandemic where Patrick released multiple songs (A Mermaid in Lisbon, Que reste-t'il de nos amours, Lost with You) following-up his previous award winning album, Wave, released in 2019. More recently Patrick Watson played in London, UK at the Barbican with the BBC Orchestra and will be headlining Le Poisson Rouge in New York on March the 31st. More concert dates will be announced soon.

Patrick Watson composes, performs and records his albums with his long-time bandmate and collaborator Mishka Stein. The recipients of Canada’s Polaris Music Prize, in addition to multiple Juno and Polaris nominations, Watson and his band have toured on all continents, on occasion playing with full orchestras to bring their rich music to life. Their most recent tour saw the band playing some of their largest venues to date, including the Barbican (London), L’Olympia (Paris), Coliseu (Lisbon), El Plaza Condesa (Mexico City), and more. Raised and still living in Montreal, Partrick Watson has composed several scores for both film and television, including a trailer for The Walking Dead and Wim Wenders’ 3D film 'Everything will be Fine'.