The “mystery vinyl” with pitched-down vocals that’s arrived in record stores ahead of this weekend’s Record Store Day has turned out to feature a new song by Lewis Capaldi.
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Shops in the UK and US, including Rough Trade, recently got a new shipment of “mystery” records, which are pressed on vinyl and contain no artist name or title. The cover is a plain white sleeve, and there is nothing printed on the record itself revealing which artist it belongs to.
The boxes of vinyl have been free for customers to take, even though one of them ended up on eBay for £2,500. Some have shared online that employees have described it as a sneak preview of a new song from “a major artist” which is set to be released properly soon.
The mystery singer on the record was widely predicted to be Capaldi, based on the vocal inflections and romantic lyrics.
Capaldi has now confirmed that he was behind the stunt by posting a TikTok of him lip-syncing to the song’s proper studio recording: “So when the rights are going wrong/And I’m barely holding on/Baby hear me when I say/Oh won’t you stay love/When everybody’s leaving/Come on, stay love/To get me through the evening.“
The song continued: “Oh I pray love/That you’ll always be the one/And when the road gets rough/Don’t give up on us/And this could stay love.”
“hope you don’t hate this song as much as I hate watching my self lip syncing to it,” Capaldi quipped in the caption.
