End of the World is the Sleeper album Louise Wener has been waiting a lifetime to write. A collection of ten deeply personal songs, it shifts focus from the wit, swagger and observational storytelling of the band’s 90s work to something more direct, emotionally exposed and unguarded. The album is due out February 12, 2027 via Gorsky Records.
“It’s a very different record for me,” says Louise. “I’m Gen X, we tend not to confront our emotions or display them easily to the outside world. There’s strength in that, but also solitude. I got to the point where I felt I was dissolving. Like if I didn’t put my discomfort somewhere, I’d cease to exist.”
Written and recorded between Paris and Manchester, the album was produced by Joe Cross (The Courteeners, Hurts, Louis Tomlinson, The Slow Readers Club). “We made the album over 18 months, working in small bursts. I wasn’t in a great place when we started, and the recording sessions became these vital touchstones. Brief windows where life made sense.”
The record moves through grief, regret, loneliness and the struggle to let go. Ultimately, it’s about coming through – finding the strength to stop making yourself smaller and discovering there can be freedom on the other side of something you thought might destroy you.
Lead single and album title track, ‘End of the World’, leans into that feeling. “It’s a song about breaking free. The moment you turn round and say: Enough. I’m done. Whoever is hurting you – a partner, a family member, a way of life that no longer fits – leaving may feel like your world is ending. It might also be the most liberating thing you can do.”
End of The World:
- Up Not Crying
- End of The World
- Trenches
- Incomplete
- The View
- I Don’t Need Anybody
- Nothing
- You Killed Beauty
- Get Home
- Let Go of Desire
