Top-streaming Canadian singer Patrick Watson says he called his new album “Uh Oh”, which released Friday, to capture the sense of fatalistic doom felt by many people when they wake up and read the news.

The bilingual 45-year-old multi-instrumentalist, whose ballad “Je te laisserai des mots” is the most-streamed francophone title ever on Spotify, said he’d tried to channel the ambient feeling of dread into his music.

“It’s related to what it feels like being in this world and I think that everybody’s experienced that unanimously, everybody’s in a state of constant “Uh oh!”, you know what I mean?” he told AFP in an interview.

“It’s been like that since Covid, it’s never stopped. As soon as Covid finished, it was Russia’s war (in Ukraine), then it was Gaza, then America’s invading Canada,”

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