


I just wanted that to be a punch and straight away, here's a fucking album.” And I’d love to say it was an artistic choice, but it’s 2019: You put the chorus at the start of the song.

I didn't want there to be too much of an intro. I wanted ‘Grace’ to be the first song because it just opens up, piano chord, my vocals straight away. “There were no sleepless nights worrying about track sequencing or anything like that. He’ll try to tell you otherwise below, in his exclusive track-by-track guide. His debut album makes good on the promise teased across singles “Bruises” and “Someone You Loved.” It’s a ballsy, timeless breakup album of skyscraping ballads that we’re convinced required very little studio rehab. It’s one of a few traits he shares with fellow heartbreak documentarian Adele. “I hate sitting in a recording studio, because you’re taking something you love, making it really, really shit and then trying to bring it back to the point where you love it again.” Now, to know the Scottish singer-songwriter-even just from Twitter-is to know we’re dealing with one of pop’s more self-effacing stars. “There is no better feeling than that first minute after you’ve written a good song,” Lewis Capaldi tells Apple Music.
