Richard Ashcroft follows up a celebratory summer supporting Oasis with the release of ‘Lovin’ You’ on 10 October, 2025. This is Richard’s first album filled with new material since 2018’s ‘Natural Rebel’ and finds the singer-songwriter exploring, experimenting and celebrating love.

‘Lover’ opens the record with its take on Joan Armatrading’s ‘Love and Affection’. The lead single that was used as Richard’s walk-on music for the Oasis shows, there’s a touch of early Primal Scream as Richard defiantly declares: ‘Glass ceilings are shattered again’. This is followed by the more familiar acoustic sound of ‘Out of These Blues’, a pining love song filled with regret: ‘You’re sorry, can you see my world’s on fire?’.

‘Heavy News’ has a touch of Richard’s old band The Verve’s ‘This is Music’ as Richard roars: ‘Don’t you want to live? Don’t you want to breathe? Don’t you want to fight the fire with me?’. ‘I’m a Rebel’ is all disco beats, synthesizers and falsetto – ‘My baby knows what it’s all about’ – before ‘Find Another Reason’ moves into a more self-reflective space: ‘And in time you might find another reason to live. I’m on your side, so let’s find another reason to live’.

‘Live with Hope’ – a message many of us need right now in these fractured times – combines soulful sorrow (‘crushing you from within’) with gospel tones and a not towards the softer side of The Rolling Stones. The closing ‘Fly to the Sun’ has a touch of Richard’s good friend Noel Gallagher as he first admits that ‘love can be cruel’ before finally letting someone go free: ‘Fly to the sun, there’s nothing gonna burn you now’.

‘Lovin’ You’ is an album that finds Richard Ashcroft in relaxed and romantic mood – and it’s one you’ll easily fall for.