Tom Chaplin follows the announcement of his forthcoming new album, Midpoint, by releasing the second song from the record, ‘Gravitational’.
An infectious indie-pop banger produced by Ethan Johns, ‘Gravitational’ sees Tom at his most upbeat. “There’s an ambiguity to the lyrics,” Tom admits. “The heavy chemicals now are the love for family. But it’s also the desire to unravel. With my addiction and then with certain midlife questions, every time I felt myself getting very far away from home, and my wife, and kids, and music even, there’s an energy that pulls me back. I love that.”
‘Gravitational’ follows the album’s title track, a song which sees Tom’s voice soar, painting a picture of a man who is both bemused and confused with thoughts of his midlife.
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Out on 2 September through BMG, Tom began writing the songs for Midpoint two years ago when Keane’s 2019 Cause and Effect tour was interrupted by the pandemic. The songs, all founded on reflection and imagination, were recorded in six weeks at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios in Bath and Paul Epworth’s The Church in North London.
Coming as Tom enters mid-life, Midpoint is like nothing else. “There’s space for something nuanced that explores a part of life that everyone goes through,” Tom says. “If I can get some of that across and it can resonate with something people are feeling in their lives-well, I’d be more than happy with that.”
Produced by Ethan Johns, this emotionally charged collection – his first release on BMG – features thirteen brand new songs sung with beauty and grace as at 43, Tom Chaplin now finds himself at an equilibrium. It’s the first where the Keane frontman presents all of himself: as a writer, a singer, a husband, a world-beating artist with a past (and all the ups and downs that come with it) – and as a middle-aged man.
Tom and his band will tour the UK this autumn starting 6 October at Leicester’s De Montfort Hall and finishing up at the London Palladium on 22 October.
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