Jack Peñate today releases new single ‘Prayer’, his first official release in a decade since his second album ‘Everything is New’ was released on XL Recordings in 2009.
Jack took time away from releasing music to experiment with writing and production, collaborating with others along the way (including David Byrne’s ‘American Utopia’). ‘Prayer’ was written and recorded in the space of one day when Jack meet the producer Inflo. They immediately jumped in a car and drove to Jack’s garage-converted studio in Oxford where ‘Prayer’ was born, before being finished in New York with Alex Epton.
World-renowned British artist Eddie Peake created the artwork and directed the music video. It was shot in the lecture theatre at the Royal Academy of Arts in London with Eddie’s team of dancers, where they spent a morning improvising and shot the one-take video on an iPhone that afternoon.
“Prayer was made for and with my family and friends. It’s a piece about the unifying nature of loss and the thread of hope that survives throughout.”
