Colouring

“This is the first time I've been less scared of being honest about my life in my music,' adds Jack Kenworthy about his second album Love To You, Mate. 'Because it's not my story. It’s a shared one.”

The Nottingham-based songwriter and producer’s life was upended in February 2021, months before the release of his debut album Wake, when his brother-in-law was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer. What followed was the most “unbelievable” year of a family’s togetherness when life seemed set on fracturing the life of a young man. Kenworthy, knowing in particular that he needed to be a pillar of support to his partner Helen, whom he’s since married, found that the family’s journey together in the face of adversity was both brutal and beautiful.

“We were of course so terrified,” Kenworthy remembers of the following Christmas spent in hospital, a memory etched into the album’s title track. “But they're just such positive, kind, inspiring people who had everything thrown at them and handled it all with this incredible togetherness and spirit. We’re all so grateful to have had him in our lives.”

Following first single “Lune”, Colouring today announces the release of new album Love To You, Mate, due out 23rd February 2024 via Bella Union. Commenting on the new single 'For You', Kenworthy says; "Made with my friends and long-time collaborators Gianluca Buccellati and Mikko Gordon, this is the first chapter of my new record, Love To You, Mate.”