Tom Grennan releases "Higher"

Tom Grennan returns with the release of new single ‘Higher’. A blast of uplifting, state-of-the-art pop, ‘Higher’ offers a thrilling first taste of the evolution of one of UK’s most exciting talents at his creative and confident best. “A lot of people don’t know what’s about to hit them,” he says, teasing what fans can expect of this new chapter: Tom's upcoming fourth album.

Working for the first time with songwriter and producer Justin Tranter (Britney Spears, Linkin Park, Dua Lipa, Fall Out Boy) Tom found himself a collaborator who understood exactly what he wanted to say and what he wanted to sound like: George Michael, Prince, Freddie Mercury. “So much of the new music is uplifting — it makes you dance, makes you sing — but for me there’s also the excitement of it being a sound I've never explored,” Tom says.

Recorded at London’s legendary Rak Studios, the song started with a piano riff. “The weird thing about me is that I make music in the studio but most of my good ideas come to me when I'm not actually in the studio,” he says. “On the day we wrote Higher I’d left the room but I just couldn’t get that riff out of my head. It turned into a melody, which turned into a phrase... I ran back into the studio, with the piano riff still playing, threw my hands up and sang: ‘It's taking me higher. ’Everyone in the room just went: ‘Boom. That’s it.'