- 2025-09-10
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MUSIC
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Tom Odell Releases New Album “A Wonderful Life”
British singer-songwriter Tom Odell released his seventh studio album “A Wonderful Life” on September 5, 2025 via UROK.
This marks his first album in over a year since the 2024 album “Black Friday”.
Tom Odell wrote the album on tour in 2024. The album is a snapshot of a hectic period when he was trying to balance touring life with love and friendship.
The album comprises 10 tracks, produced by Cityfall and Tom Odell.
Tom Odell said of the album, “I wish I could wrap it up into a nice little bow of what the mood and the message is, but these songs are the antithesis of that. To live, and to write honestly about it, is such a profoundly important part of my life now. And I feel like if I have any duty whatsoever, it’s just to continue to do that.”- Tom Odell explained some tracks for the album.
“Don’t Let Me Go”
“For me the song is very much inspired by a kinda sense of looming apocalypse. The fire raging outside, but inside life seems to go as if everything is normal. That despairing thought, 'why does no one seem to care' .. the comet in the sky in melancholia.... but the song is also about devotion. About love being a kinda divine commitment, think Jack and Rose holding onto one another as the titanic goes down, their hands white and shivering. Anna Karenina throwing herself in front of the train... that song ‘I Will Follow You Into the Dark’ by Death Cab for Cutie.
“We being Alex Leggatt and I, who sat for endless hours together in my studio coming up with the visual world. We were very inspired by 70's conceptual artists like Doug Wheeler (respect to you Doug) and James Turrel. We built this giant empty box in a huge studio in London, emulating a kinda abyss, a void, a purgatory if you will. And had a lot of fun playing with the tension you can create with space and light in such a vast space. The meeting point between the outer world and the inner, the present world and the past, and so on. Alex had this idea of bringing in a ladder, (inspired by Jacob's Ladder) and this idea that I am trying to follow the other character into another world, into heaven, but ultimately I can't, and I fall back down to earth.” -
“Ugly”
“Something I've never really talked about is some of my own weird shame around my body, and it feels so uncomfortable to actually say that in a song. But when you say it, it's really fucking powerful.
Ugly is an exploration of what it feels like to be a human being - of looking out at the world and feeling like everybody seems to glide through life so easily, but the experience of actually living it yourself is so fraught and it's not pretty.”
“The End of Suffering”
“It ends on a song called the end of suffering. The end of suffering, there's a door, there is everything, there is nothing, and there is everything and more. There's a sticker on the window saying something like, you've got nowhere left to go, take a step inside. At the end of suffering, there's a room, there's a child's crown, drawing of the moon. I light my cigarette. I lean against the wall. I feel that resignation. There's nowhere left to fall. And then the song ends. At the end of suffering, there's a home, and the only way you get there is on your own. I lay down on the sofa, turn on the TV, shut my tired eye. And hopelessly, I dream at the end of suffering, there's a world at the end of suffering, there's a world. I stumble to the window, pull the curtains wide. I've spent so long in darkness, it's good to see the sun. It Shine, and that's where the album finishes and you've gone on this crazy journey. And there's hope.” - source : Apple Music
