Patrick Watson has confirmed his new album ‘Uh Oh’ featuring guest vocalists including Martha Wainwright

Patrick Watson has announced new album ‘Uh Oh’, set for release via Secret City Records on 26th September.

The 11-track record features collaborations with numerous guest vocalists, including Martha Wainwright, Charlotte Cardin, and November Ultra. The project emerged following a period where Watson lost his voice, leading him to reimagine his approach to creating music.

“Obviously, I like singing for people, but I was really enjoying my Modular [synth] and diving into instrumental music,” Watson explains. “But then I was like, ‘Oh, it’d be cool to write songs for all these different singers that I really want to hear sing—I’ll find my way out of this situation that way.’ Because my voice wasn’t supposed to come back. And when it did, I just thought having all these other singers featured was still a cooler idea for a record than me singing alone.”

The album’s latest single, ‘Peter and the Wolf’, draws inspiration from nocturnal experiences. “When you’re in the forest at night 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,” Watson says. “And then I went to New Orleans with Heather O’Neill and in the middle of the night, I took a walk outside, and New Orleans is just filled with ghosts at night— it’s a really magical place.”

The album was recorded across multiple locations including Montreal, New Orleans, L.A., Mexico City, and Paris, following previous singles ‘Silencio’ and ‘Gordon in the Willows’.

His dates in full read:

JUNE
20 Festival la Commission B, Saint-Casimir, QC

JULY
3 La Noce, Saguenay, QC
25 Calgary Folk Music Festival, Calgary, AB

OCTOBER
28 Bikini, Toulouse, France
29 Rocher de Palmer, Bordeaux, France
31 Stereolux, Nantes, France

NOVEMBER
1 Le 106, Rouen, France
2 Théâtre De Beaulieu, Lausanne, Switzerland
4 Zenith La Villette, Paris, France
5 Transbordeur, Lyon, France
7 Troxy, London, UK
10 Concertgebouw de Vereeniging, Nijmegen, Netherlands
11 BOZAR, Bruxelles, Belgium
12 Carre Theatre, Amsterdam, Netherlands