Loverman releases debut album 'Lovesongs' | out 27.10

Belgian baroque folk poet Loverman today announces his debut album, the aptly titled Lovesongs, set for release through [PIAS] Recordings on October 27. The album was written by Loverman and produced by Pieterjan Maertens & Jo Francken (known for their work with fellow Belgian prodigy Tamino and French singer Zaz) and Loverman himself.

For James de Graef love is the fundamental building block of his artistic expression, as his stage name and debut album title explicitly attest. Yet while Lovesongs by Loverman will leave the listener in no doubt that love is all, the emotional embers at the heart of each of the record's 11 songs – and the warm, intimate and candid atmosphere that pervades across them – also ensure that all of love is here to be experienced.

"It's been informed not only by heartbreak but by love in all its different shapes, forms and exchanges," the Anglo-Belgian singer-songwriter and producer explains of the melancholic yet hopeful core at the heart of Lovesongs. "Heartbreak is the base, but the record is just as much capturing the joy and the energy you get from communing with your loved ones and your friends in an ecstatic celebratory environment, or the love you feel for humans in general. People you've never met, but when you see their tenderness and understanding it creates moments of real beauty. Like when you see on the news people engaging and helping after disasters or hardship. It touches that spirit of love too."

Pre-order the debut album here: loverman.ffm.to/lovesongs

Listen to Would (Right In Front Of Your Eyes) here: loverman.ffm.to/would

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