has confirmed plans for new album ‘Lucky’.

The songwriter embraces maturity on his new record, with the English artist able to look at recurring themes – friendship and self-doubt, communion and isolation – from a different and more reflective vantage point.

Out on March 12th, new album ‘Lucky’ is packed with warming wisdom, with Willie commenting that he’s able to bring his sense of humour to the fore on these new songs. He comments: “There’s a kind of life clarity there that I think I feel really lucky to have had when I was writing the songs.”

New single ‘Benjamin’ kicks it off, and it takes Willie J Healey back to his roots. Refreshingly melodic, it’s essentially rooted in acoustic guitar and voice.

The songwriter explains…

It felt good for me to get back to some real deal stuff. I really sat down and worked through everything on an acoustic guitar, feelings too – which is why most of the songs have very little electric guitars on them.

I moved house and live by a park now, I set up my studio in the back of the house and wrote most of the songs in that little room, pretty isolated in a nice way.

I wrote Benjamin really quickly, it was one of those gifts. Just came right to me! We tracked all of these acoustic guitars and I did this big gasp at the beginning because I think the song kinda feels like somebody who’s asking to be saved by whatever’s out there saving things. It’s got this hopeful desperation thing going on.

There’s nothing too fancy about the recordings we got, which I’m very happy about. I felt slightly caught up in making things slick – I didn’t want to do that this time.. I couldn’t be bothered. To me it feels direct and simple! Which is weirdly hard to do sometimes.

Tune in now.