Jack Peñate releases his intimate third album ‘After You’

After You by Jack Peñate has finally been released, and alongside it, a stunning live video for the single ‘Loaded Gun’.

To celebrate the release of his highly-anticipated third album After You, Jack Peñate today releases a stunning live video of one of the album’s undoubted highlights, ‘Loaded Gun’. Directed by Daniel Castro Garcia and filmed at north London’s legendary The Church Studios, the intimate black and white live recording sees Jack stripping back the song to just piano and vocals to beautiful effect.

The album version of ‘Loaded Gun’ which – as with much of After You – is produced by Jack himself, is also made available today via all digital services ahead of the album’s release.

Featuring the incredible singles ‘Prayer’ and ‘Murder’, After You is Jack’s first full-length record in over a decade. It’s already been met with widespread critical acclaim, described by the Sunday Times as “so effortless-sounding, so brimming with riches, you wonder what took the Londoner so long” while Q Magazine added it’s “Nick Drake by way of actual Drake… It’s a surprise to have him back, but on the strength of After You, a more than welcome one”.

The journey to After You was not a straight forward one.  Ten years ago, as Peñate finished touring his second album Everything Is New, the south London born songwriter,  best known for his hit ‘Torn On The Platform’, walked off stage, got home and realised that he was physically unable to record another album. All he owned in the way of equipment was a small recording setup and the instruments accumulated while touring. He felt he was unable to fluently speak the language of his art form. “I wanted to be able to walk into any studio and be able to express what I wanted to achieve using the language for the technical aspects,” he says. Something clicked inside him. He knew that if he wanted to achieve longevity as an artist, he had to be able to control the audio narrative of his work.

If Peñate’s ambition was to be able to make a sound that sounded like a feeling felt, and to be able to master studio production, and to be able to have longevity in his career, then it’s safe to say that with After You, that ambition has been realised.

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