New Music From Patrick Watson
Patrick Watson – whose upcoming album Uh Oh is due September 26 from Secret City Records – composes, performs, and records his albums with his long-time bandmate and collaborator and multi-instrumentalists Mishka Stein and Olivier Fairfield. The Canadian artist has reached gold and platinum status in over multiple countries, and his shows sell out around the world. Over the course of his career, Watson has retained the uncanny ability to coexist in mainstream pop-culture spaces and on the avant-garde fringes. He’s an in-demand composer with over 15 film scores under his belt. He was awarded the prestigious inaugural Impact Award at the 2024 Canadian Sync Awards. Watson’s viral single “Je te laisserai des mots” became the first French song to accumulate one billion streams on Spotify. The songs of Patrick Watson transform everyday surroundings into an imaginary wonderland, translating stress and sorrow into joy, and helping listeners find peace within the chaos of modern life.
About “Peter and the Wolf,” the third advance single from the upcoming LP, Watson says, “This is something I never could’ve written when I was younger. When I originally wrote this track, I was with my partner Heather in the woods and she was talking about rewriting the fairy tale Peter and the Wolf. When you’re in the forest and it’s cloudy and the dark hits the tree line, it just goes pitch black. So I wrote the music thinking about that—not really a wolf, but that pitch-blackness. And then I went to New Orleans with Heather and in the middle of the night, I took a walk outside, and New Orleans is just filled with ghosts— it’s a really magical place. I was all by myself and this car came slowly down the street. It was this really classy car and there was this crazy low-end just purring from far away and kind of rolling towards me. There was just something about when I was staring at that car that reminded me of when I was staring into the forest at night. I was staring at the same ghost in a lot of ways—it felt like I was in a dream as it was coming towards me. And I thought, ‘I’m going to write this song as if the car is the wolf and I’m Peter.’ The first half of the song is about that, and for the second half of the song, we went to this really grimy middle-of-nowhere swamp where we all went through these crazy trailer places where it looked like they were going to kill us, but then we got to the end of the swamp, and it was this beautiful emerald green.”
FCC WARNING: Track 4. Digital servicing includes clean edit.
Label: Secret City Records
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