Brother Wallace Announces Debut Album Electric Love
Out May 8 on ATO Records
Shares Title Track and Official Music Video
The Soul Force to Join St. Paul & The Broken Bones on Extensive North America Spring Tour Including Brooklyn Paramount (NYC), The Salt Shed (Chi), and 9:30 Club (D.C.)
January 20, 2026 // Some artists spend their whole lives getting ready for the moment the world finally hears them. Brother Wallace is one of them. Today, the West Point, Georgia-bred singer, pianist, and soul revivalist announces his debut album, Electric Love, out May 8 via ATO Records, and shares the album’s title track—a Motown-esque number that’s equal parts playful, revelatory, and gloriously cathartic—alongside an official music video. The track arrives with major international momentum, having been premiered by The Craig Charles Funk and Soul Show on BBC Radio 6 Music. It’s a bold first chapter from a voice that feels less like a “new artist” and more like a force that’s been building quietly for years, waiting for the right voltage.
On “Electric Love,” Brother Wallace doesn’t just sing about joy—he fights for it. The song moves like a shot of sunlight through a storm cloud: Stax-and-satin soul, piano-driven, and bursting with momentum, it’s built for the exact moment when you decide you’re not going to let the world harden you. “It’s about choosing connection,” Wallace says. “Finding that current again—the thing that reminds you you’re alive.”
Listen to / Watch “Electric Love” (directed by Will Walter)
Pre-save / Pre-order Electric Love: https://ffm.to/electriclove-album
Raised in a small rural town where the church was both community and classroom, Wallace began singing early and started formal piano training at six years old. By 14, he was directing a 100-member choir—leading not from ambition, but from instinct. Music wasn’t extracurricular; it was identity. Still, his path didn’t follow the typical industry arc. Wallace built a life at the intersection of art and service, becoming a K–12 music teacher and shaping young voices day after day, even as his own kept growing into something undeniable.
Over time, that “teacher” story expanded into something bigger: including sharing the stage with gospel legend Kirk Franklin performing at Madison Square Garden. But it wasn’t until a chance meeting sparked a creative partnership—one that stretched across years and continents—that Brother Wallace’s vision began assembling into the album it was always meant to become. That partnership was with Dan Taylor (The Heavy), who became not just a collaborator but a catalyst. Recorded at Real World Studios (the legendary facility founded by Peter Gabriel) and produced/co-written by Taylor, Electric Love captures the breathless immediacy of Wallace’s performances—engineered and mixed by Bob Mackenzie (James Blake, The 1975, King Krule, SAULT) and Jim Abbiss (Adele,Arctic Monkeys). The result is soul music that feels alive in your hands: gritty, radiant, and built around the kind of vocal that turns rooms silent before it turns them inside out. Across its 13 songs, Electric Love is less a debut than a revelation—a body of work fueled by gospel roots and classic soul lineage (Sam Cooke, Little Richard, Southern soul greats) while refusing to live in nostalgia. Wallace writes in lived-in scenes and hard-earned feeling: heartbreak without defeat, joy without naïveté, vulnerability without apology. The album’s rhapsodic opener “Who’s That?” (released last fall as his first ATO single) entered the Top 30 at Triple A radio in the US for the first time this week—an amazing feat for his first-ever single. Now, the title track “Electric Love” expands the frame: this is an artist building a world where joy is radical, and connection is survival. Now, the title track “Electric Love” expands the frame: this is an artist building a world where joy is radical, and connection is survival. This spring, Brother Wallace will bring that world to the stage supporting St. Paul & The Broken Bones on his first-ever tour—an ideal match for a performer whose voice and presence were made for big rooms, shared air, and nights that feel like revival. For Brother Wallace, Electric Love isn’t just a record. It’s proof of concept: a lifetime of music, faith, teaching, and grit distilled into something that hits like lightning—then stays.
Electric Love Tracklist Who’s That? You’re The Man Gone With The Wind Electric Love Top Shotta No God In This Town Who Do You Love? Any Day Now Patient Man Midnight Valley Jealous Hope Of Fools Let’s Get Together
TOUR DATES, w/St. Paul & The Broken Bones 4/17/2026 – Charlotte, NC – Fillmore 4/18/2026 – Asheville, NC – Orange Peel 4/19/2026 – Raleigh, NC – Ritz 4/21/2026 – Richmond, VA – Botanical Garden 4/23/2026 – Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore 4/24/2026 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club 4/25/2026 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount 4/26/2026 – Boston, MA – House of Blues 4/28/2026 – Toronto, ON – Danforth 4/29/2026 – Detroit, MI – St. Andrews 5/1/2026 – Chicago, IL – Salt Shed 5/2/2026 – Minneapolis, MN – Palace Theatre 5/3/2026 – Madison, WI – Sylvee 5/5/2026 – Cincinnati, OH – Taft Theatre 5/6/2026 – Lexington, KY – Burl Outdoors 5/8/2026 – Atlanta, GA – Eastern 5/9/2026 – Charleston, SC – Charleston Music Hall
UK/EUROPE TOUR DATES 5/13/2026 - Brighton, UK - The Great Escape Festival 5/24/2026 - London, UK - Cross The Tracks Festival More Dates TBA Soon
Official Website: https://www.brotherwallace.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brother_wallace_official/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@brotherwallaceofficial
|
