- 2025-10-01
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MUSIC
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Louis Tomlinson Announces New Album “How Did I Get Here?”, Premieres New Song “Lemonade” on BBC Radio 1
British singer-songwriter Louis Tomlinson is back. He has announced his upcoming third studio album “How Did I Get Here?” will be released on January 23, 2026 via BMG.
It marks his first album in four years since the 2022 album “Faith in the Future”.
The album comprises 12 tracks, which Louis Tomlinson recorded with producer Nico Rebscher at Santa Teresa in Costa Rica for three weeks in early 2025.
Louis Tomlinson said of the album, “I sum up it as ‘The record I always deserved to make. My bread and butter is my honesty. I genuinely wear my heart on my sleeve, and I hope it comes through in the music. I’m still learning and getting better as a singer and a songwriter. I find it impossible to be complacent; it’s not in my vocabulary. For the first time now, I’m allowing myself to be the artist I’d always hoped to be.”
From the album, he premiered a new song “Lemonade” on BBC Radio 1's New Music Show with Jack Saunders.
The song is the first single off and was written by David Sneddon, Louis Tomlinson, Theo Hutchcraft, and Nicolas Rebscher.- Louis Tomlinson told Jack Saunders about the song, “It was recorded in paradise, but I recorded it lucky enough to record it in Costa Rica. So hopefully you get a bit of feeling of Paradise from that.”
He continued, “I'd say we'd written about half of the record before we went out to Costa Rica. The overarching thing with this record is I'm feeling really ambitious, and I really wanted to try and capture that within the record. So obviously the first single I really wanted to come out the blocks was something that was interesting, sonically and more melodic, maybe, than I've done in the past on previous singles. So I feel really good about it.”
He added, “I did a lot of the recording and writing in Costa Rica. Something I've always wanted to do, be able to just kind of tap into somewhere really far away from home and Costa Rica, obviously, be in that place. and just a really, really fun process.” -
He said of working with producer Nico Rebscher, “Nico Rebscher is the producer across the board. Ad he is, I worked with him on the last record, and a couple of songs I've got out my system and a few others. And he's like, one of these, like, mad scientist kind of vibes. He's like, really, really great at pop music, but the way his brain works is very, very peculiar in the best kind of way. And musically, I think that kind of shows across the record.” - source : BBC Radio 1
