The Australian singer-songwriter Dean Lewis has launched an expanded version of his hit October 2024 album. The Epilogue (Deluxe) options the brand new single “Hurt So Bad” along with 4 different songs: “With You,” “I Hate That It’s True,” “Truth,” and a canopy of “Iris” by Goo Goo Dolls. The Epilogue (Deluxe) is accessible in a restricted version 2LP yellow vinyl.
Lewis describes his new single “Hurt So Bad” as the ultimate chapter within the trilogy of “Be Alright,” which just lately reached 2 billion streams on Spotify. “There is ‘Be Alright’, ‘Hurtless,’ and ‘Hurt So Bad’ – the three songs in the trilogy. The song is about loving someone so much and losing yourself in the process, giving everything you have and them just disappearing out of your life and dealing with the aftermath of that.” The only is accompanied by a music video filmed in Malibu Creek State Park, Los Angeles by Sean Loaney, Lewis’ brother and inventive director.
Lewis beforehand described the expertise of constructing “I Hate That It’s True”: “Usually when I write a song it takes about a year before it can come out. I wrote ‘I Hate That It’s True’ about 10 weeks ago at an Airbnb in Bondi beach,” Lewis mentioned. “The day I wrote it we spent 48 hours finishing the production, rushing it over to my team and adding it onto my deluxe album. For me the song is a hint at what is to come on my next album; in the sense of where I’m headed with my songwriting and the more acoustic raw production.”
The Epilogue contains tracks like “Trust Me Mate,” “Memories,” “All I Ever Wanted,” and “Empire.” Lewis has mentioned of the document: “On this record, I started to get rawer and more acoustic again. I was trying to rekindle the simplicity of why things worked.”
In January 2026, Lewis will deliver The Epilogue International World Tour to North America. These reveals run by way of March.
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