‘Split The Sheets’ is Sunjay's tenth studio album and the culmination of a journey that began with ‘Black & Blues Revisited’ (2022) and continued through the critically acclaimed Chris Smither homage ‘I'm Just Like You’ (2024). Together, those records explored the music and songwriters that helped shape Sunjay as an artist, and the new album ‘Split The Sheets’ completes that story.

 

Fresh from a successful UK tour, international appearances in the Czech Republic and Germany, and BBC Radio 2 support, Sunjay returns with his biggest, boldest and most sonically adventurous record to date.

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‘Split The Sheets’ is an album about love. The excitement of new beginnings, the thrill of attraction, commitment, devotion, jealousy, heartbreak, humour, lust, regret, longing and loss. The light and the shade.

For fourteen songs, Sunjay explores every corner of the human experience through material written by some of the greatest songwriters of the last seventy years, including Stephen Bruton, Chris Smither, Townes Van Zandt, Jimmy Reed, Stan Rogers, Buddy Holly, Bo Diddley and Lyle Lovett.

 

The album was recorded at Get Real Studios in Bath and produced by Sunjay & Josh Clark. The principle was simply to serve the songs. Some songs were stripped back to their emotional core. Others grew larger, louder and more ambitious in the studio. The first single, ‘Take Out Some Insurance’ (the Jimmy Reed classic), earned support from BBC Radio 2 and led to an invitation to appear in-studio on Cerys Matthews' Blues Show.

 

The follow-up single ‘That’s Love’, was written by the late Stephen Bruton and combines sharp lyrical observations with an infectious groove and a powerhouse band performance.

 

For more than fifteen years, Sunjay has quietly built a reputation as one of the UK's most accomplished live performers. A former BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award finalist, he has shared stages with Steeleye Span, Fairport Convention, Curved Air, Mud Morganfield amongst others, while developing a loyal audience throughout the UK and Europe. Whether appearing solo with an acoustic guitar or fronting a full band, Sunjay brings the same intensity, musicianship and emotional honesty to every stage he steps onto.

Ten albums into his career, Sunjay sounds more assured, more distinctive and more compelling than ever.

 

‘Split The Sheets’ may have its roots in the songs and artists that inspired him, but it feels very much like the beginning of the next chapter.

 

‘Split The Sheets’ will be released on 18th September on Mighty Tight Records.