Lewis Capaldi says he’s working on a new album during TRNSMT’s set

Lewis Capaldi is already thinking about his next album. The Scottish singer-songwriter closed out the TRNSMT festival in Glasgow on Sunday night (June 21). He used the headline moment to let fans know more music was coming.

Capaldi told the crowd that once the remaining summer shows are finished, he plans to take time off from work again to focus on his writing career. “After this summer, I’m going to take some time off and make an album,” he said.

The update was announced during an emotional set at Glasgow Green, where Capaldi also opened up about the difficult period following his last TRNSMT appearance in 2022. Capaldi released his second album, Broken by Desire to Be Heavenly Sent, the following year, but subsequently suffered from poor mental and physical health and withdrew from touring and performing publicly.

“My mental state has deteriorated quite a bit,” Capaldi told the TRNSMT crowd, adding that he was now “back” and “feeling better.”

Capaldi’s return carried added weight for fans. In 2023, he famously cut short a performance on Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage while dealing with tics caused by Tourette’s Syndrome, with the audience helping him through ‘Someone You Loved’. He then announced that he would be taking a long break to focus on his health.

Since then, Capaldi has slowly returned to public appearances and live performances, including an appearance at Glastonbury last year and the release of ‘Survive’, his first new song since ‘Broken by Desire to Be Heavenly Sent’.

His comeback came after appearing in a large-scale commercial. “Someone You Loved” spent three weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2019, was nominated for a Grammy Award for Song of the Year, and helped catapult her debut album, Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent, into global breakthrough territory.

Capaldi is scheduled for a major outdoor show at BST Hyde Park and Rounday Festival in July, as well as additional performances over the summer, including performances at Liverpool, Newcastle and Sziget Festival. Although he has yet to announce the title, release date, or tracklist of his next album, TRNSMT’s comments provide one of the clearest signs yet that a new full-length project is officially on his radar.