James Marriott Announces Third Studio Album
Warning Signs Out January 15th, 2027 via AWAL
Follow Up To 2025 UK Number 1 Album Don’t Tell The Dog. Follows Last Night’s Sold-Out O2 Academy Brixton Headline Show
Latest Single ‘Burn Down The Disco’ WATCH VIDEO HERE
Latest Single ‘Burn Down The Disco’ WATCH VIDEO HERE
Photo Credit: Sam McMahon
Words: Press
James Marriott has announced his third full-length album, Warning Signs, due January 15th, 2027 via AWAL - a visceral, immersive record that sees one of the UK’s most compelling and unpredictable artists push his sound further than ever before.
The announcement arrives the morning after James played a huge, sold-out headline show at O2 Academy Brixton - announcing the new album live onstage to fervent excitement both in the room & online - just as he did for the Brixton show during his Reading Festival set just two weeks ago. Last night’s show marked James's biggest ever headline performance and yet another extraordinary milestone in an already remarkable ascent.
Across its 11 tracks, Warning Signs charts the anticipation and the rush of new desires, through the dizzying heights of obsession, before tumbling headlong into the aftermath of a relationship ending. At the centre of it is James Marriott’s fascination with the split second when a song suddenly snaps into focus - the moment when everything clicks and “pop magic” happens.
“This album, it’s all ‘moment-based’ for me,” James explains. “For a song to latch into my head, there has to be a moment where I think, ‘Oh yeah, this is amazing.’ I can pick out something in every track on the record that gives me that feeling.”
Those moments are everywhere across Warning Signs. On lead single ‘Burn Down The Disco’ - which this week was made a Track of The Week on BBC Radio 1 - cuts abruptly to silence on the words “momentary heart attack” before crashing back into life; while ‘Déjà Vu’ builds towards a bridge of enormous, blown-out guitar riffs. Jagged, Geese-inspired guitars tear through ‘Hell’, while ‘Five Year Plan’ builds towards a towering final release. Across the record, spitting fury, self-doubt and heartbreak are metabolised into something euphoric - an album that sounds as emotionally volatile as the story it tells.
The album’s concept originated with the hazard-style weather symbols used throughout the music video for Marriott’s 2026 UK Top 40 single ‘California Rain’, which captured the strange blur of life on the road. Playing with those storm and flood icons “woke something up” in James, prompting him to imagine them as symbols for the contrasting emotional states explored throughout his music.
Warning Signs was written and recorded during a period of extraordinary momentum. Following the UK Number 1 chart-topping success of his second album Don’t Tell The Dog and #17-charting 2023 debut Are We There Yet?, he’s spent the past year performing to increasingly large audiences across the UK and internationally - appearing at Reading & Leeds, Latitude, Lollapalooza & Electric Picnic, while taking his headline shows across the UK, Europe, North America and Australia - where he will perform a near fully sold-out headline tour in October. He capped off an incredible year with two sold-out shows at London’s Roundhouse, before returning to the studio to begin work on the album that would become Warning Signs.
Inspired by the risk-taking and radicalism of Magdalena Bay, Slayyyter, Charli xcx and Underscores, alongside the club-inflected shifts of Harry Styles and the steel-and-sugar pop of Dua Lipa, Marriott has created what he calls “anti-pop”: an introverted version of pop music, built around anthemic songwriting but viewed from the perspective of an outsider.
Yet the connection with his audience remains at the heart of Marriott’s story. That connection began long before the music. Originally building an audience online through chaotic pop-culture commentary, Marriott has since transformed that instinct for connection into a singular musical identity.. His audience now spans those who discovered him online and those who have found him through his music.
”It’s funny, because there really are two different pools of people who know me now: some from the online world, and others who have found me through my music,” Marriott says. “I’m completely at peace with that. I’d never shun the thing that got me here, which is an audience willing to give everything a go. As an artist, that’s all you can hope for: people who’ll buy a record, come to a show, and follow you wherever you want to take it.”
Warning Signs is James Marriott at his most engrossing: jagged, romantic, euphoric and emotionally unrestrained. An album about losing control that arrives from an artist who has never been more certain of who he is.
James Marriott - Warning Signs Tracklisting
1. Sleepwalker
2. Double Bed
3. Kiss
4. Lovestruck
5. Burn Down The Disco
6. Déjà Vu
7. Madeline
8. Come Back To Me
9. Lights Out
10. Hell
11. Five Year Plan
The announcement arrives the morning after James played a huge, sold-out headline show at O2 Academy Brixton - announcing the new album live onstage to fervent excitement both in the room & online - just as he did for the Brixton show during his Reading Festival set just two weeks ago. Last night’s show marked James's biggest ever headline performance and yet another extraordinary milestone in an already remarkable ascent.
Across its 11 tracks, Warning Signs charts the anticipation and the rush of new desires, through the dizzying heights of obsession, before tumbling headlong into the aftermath of a relationship ending. At the centre of it is James Marriott’s fascination with the split second when a song suddenly snaps into focus - the moment when everything clicks and “pop magic” happens.
“This album, it’s all ‘moment-based’ for me,” James explains. “For a song to latch into my head, there has to be a moment where I think, ‘Oh yeah, this is amazing.’ I can pick out something in every track on the record that gives me that feeling.”
Those moments are everywhere across Warning Signs. On lead single ‘Burn Down The Disco’ - which this week was made a Track of The Week on BBC Radio 1 - cuts abruptly to silence on the words “momentary heart attack” before crashing back into life; while ‘Déjà Vu’ builds towards a bridge of enormous, blown-out guitar riffs. Jagged, Geese-inspired guitars tear through ‘Hell’, while ‘Five Year Plan’ builds towards a towering final release. Across the record, spitting fury, self-doubt and heartbreak are metabolised into something euphoric - an album that sounds as emotionally volatile as the story it tells.
The album’s concept originated with the hazard-style weather symbols used throughout the music video for Marriott’s 2026 UK Top 40 single ‘California Rain’, which captured the strange blur of life on the road. Playing with those storm and flood icons “woke something up” in James, prompting him to imagine them as symbols for the contrasting emotional states explored throughout his music.
Warning Signs was written and recorded during a period of extraordinary momentum. Following the UK Number 1 chart-topping success of his second album Don’t Tell The Dog and #17-charting 2023 debut Are We There Yet?, he’s spent the past year performing to increasingly large audiences across the UK and internationally - appearing at Reading & Leeds, Latitude, Lollapalooza & Electric Picnic, while taking his headline shows across the UK, Europe, North America and Australia - where he will perform a near fully sold-out headline tour in October. He capped off an incredible year with two sold-out shows at London’s Roundhouse, before returning to the studio to begin work on the album that would become Warning Signs.
Inspired by the risk-taking and radicalism of Magdalena Bay, Slayyyter, Charli xcx and Underscores, alongside the club-inflected shifts of Harry Styles and the steel-and-sugar pop of Dua Lipa, Marriott has created what he calls “anti-pop”: an introverted version of pop music, built around anthemic songwriting but viewed from the perspective of an outsider.
Yet the connection with his audience remains at the heart of Marriott’s story. That connection began long before the music. Originally building an audience online through chaotic pop-culture commentary, Marriott has since transformed that instinct for connection into a singular musical identity.. His audience now spans those who discovered him online and those who have found him through his music.
”It’s funny, because there really are two different pools of people who know me now: some from the online world, and others who have found me through my music,” Marriott says. “I’m completely at peace with that. I’d never shun the thing that got me here, which is an audience willing to give everything a go. As an artist, that’s all you can hope for: people who’ll buy a record, come to a show, and follow you wherever you want to take it.”
Warning Signs is James Marriott at his most engrossing: jagged, romantic, euphoric and emotionally unrestrained. An album about losing control that arrives from an artist who has never been more certain of who he is.
James Marriott - Warning Signs Tracklisting
1. Sleepwalker
2. Double Bed
3. Kiss
4. Lovestruck
5. Burn Down The Disco
6. Déjà Vu
7. Madeline
8. Come Back To Me
9. Lights Out
10. Hell
11. Five Year Plan
