- 2025-06-05
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MUSIC
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Patrick Watson Announces New Album “Uh Oh”, Shares New Song “Peter and the Wolf”
Canadian singer-songwriter Patrick Watson has announced his upcoming eighth studio album “Uh Oh” will be released on September 26, 2025 via Secret City Records.
This marks his first album in three years since the 2022 album “Better in the Shade”.
The album comprises 11 tracks, featuring collaborations with November Ultra, MARO, Charlotte Oleena, La Force, Klô Pelgag, Hohnen Ford, Martha Wainwright, Charlotte Cardin, and Solann.
Patrick Watson said of the album, “This is a collection of songs and collaborations from people of languages around the world. It was so fun to make. Everybody singing on this record will blow your mind each in their own way. The reason why it’s collaborative is when we started this record, I thought my voice was broken forever so it’d be fun to write for other people. But in the end, it came back. Now it turns into these collaborations. it’s a really special collection of music and I hope you guys will enjoy it.”
From the album, he released a new song “Peter and the Wolf” on June 4, 2025.
The song is the third single off of the album, following “Silencio” with November Ultra, and “Gordon in the Willows” with Charlotte Cardin.
It was written by Anna Khesickhway Harper, Mikhail Stein, Olivier Fairfield, and Patrick Watson, who also produced the track.
The accompanying music video was directed by Patrick Watson and SAMWOY.- Patrick Watson said of the song, “This is something I never could’ve written when I was younger. When I originally wrote this track, I was with my partner Heather in the woods and she was talking about rewriting Peter and the Wolf. 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. 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. I was all by myself and then this car came slowly down the street. It was this really classy car and there was this crazy low-end just purring from far away and kind of rolling towards me. In the low end it was shaking all the houses and all the windows, the way it moved was so graceful and slow, it was quite wonderful. There was just something about when I was staring at that car that reminded me of when I was staring into the forest at night. I was staring at the same ghost in a lot of ways-it felt like I was in a dream as it was coming towards me. And I thought, ‘I'm going to write this song as if the car is the wolf and I'm Peter.’”
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He continued, “The first half of the song is about that, and for the second half of the song, we went to this really far away middle-of-nowhere swamp where we all went through these crazy trailer places where it looked like they were going to kill us, but then we got to the end of the swamp, and it was this beautiful emerald green everywhere we looked and it was like this thing that you wanted to taste but you knew it would kill you in a way. While we were down there, we ran into a lot of French speaking people which was really fun since I'm from Quebec. I decided to make the swamp a mermaid because you want to get into it and swim in it but the moment you do that it will just swallow you like it swallows everything that flows into it, It's interesting because that place is basically all of America flowing down there through it so that's a very interesting sensation.”
Patrick Watson shared on social media, “It’s a really fun track I’ve been really excited to release. Every time we played it live people have always asked what it was so I decided to release this first. It’s a crazy Southern Gothic fairy tale inspired by Peter and the Wolf where obviously I’m Peter. Anachnid accepted to sing with me on this one, I am so thrilled. I invited my dear friend because I think she embodies this really magical presence when she does music in a beautiful surreal way with lots of guts and courage. I felt like she would be the perfect person to sing on this one. I hope you enjoy it. It was so fun to make, I hope you love it.”
He added, “This video is from SamWoy and I, we did our best to try to capture the song in a video. We found a cool car but we couldn’t film in New Orleans. We had to film in Montreal so to make up for it we had to reproject all the scenes on trees to give it its full meaning. I think it looks really cool. Working with Sam, the best naturally Punk is his go-to!”
Photo by Lawrence Fafard - source : Apple Music
