Patrick Watson composes, performs, and records his albums with his long-time bandmates, collaborator and multi-instrumentalist Mishka Stein, and Olivier Fairfield. The Canadian artist 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. His songs have been featured in primetime crowd-pleasers like Grey’s Anatomy and This Is Us, as well as in multiple arthouse films from Denis Villeneuve (Polytechnique), Wim Wenders (Perfect Days), Philippe Falardeau (C’est pas moi, je le jure!), and more. He’s an artist who’s as comfortable performing impromptu pop-up shows on the train tracks in a Quebec mining town as he is leading the BBC Orchestra at London’s prestigious Barbican. 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 11 new original songs on Uh Oh find Watson meditating on the idea of life being a series of “uh ohs:” a little phrase uttered in response to everything from childhood accidents to our most overwhelming anxieties. For Watson, it came to mind when faced with the biggest “uh oh” that a singer could endure when he lost his voice. Unsure if or when he would be able to sing again, his new album took a new shape, a collection of collaborations with friends and strangers; artists that he wanted to hear sing. Uh Oh represents a vision that Watson has chased for his entire life, the culmination of 20 years of musical exploration and lived experience that enabled him to translate the films in his mind to these sounds and words.
“His finest work to date… a consistently thrilling record and unquestionably one of the albums of 2025.” – Silent Radio
“Canadian singer-songwriter finds triumph in adversity… Among the guests are La Force, Charlotte Cardin, November Ultra and Matha Wainwright: a roll call of Quebecois luminaries… This stately, sometimes gospel-esque, album has the forced intensity of a coiled spring. ★★★★.” – MOJO
“A loving feat of atmospheric collaboration, executed with exquisitely controlled restraint… The vocalists complement Watson impeccably… Restorative and beautiful. ★★★★.” – Record CollectorFCC WARNING: Track 5. Digital servicing includes clean edit.
Label: Secret City Records
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FCC WARNING: Track 1, “Silencio,” Track 6, “The Lonely Lights”
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