Aqualung comeback puts a spell on you

British singer songwriter Matt Hales, aka ‘Aqualung’ is back with a new album. ’10 Futures’ features collaborations with fellow Brits Joel Compass, SOHN, Prides and more.

Aqualung kicked off his international career in 2002 with his debut single ‘Strange and Beautiful (I’ll Put a Spell on You)’, which was also used in a major ad campaign for the Volkswagen Beetle.

Five successful albums later, after a flourishing international career, Hales decided to walk away from the spotlight, announcing his ‘retirement’ as a recording artist in 2010.

“There’s a point at which it starts to not be as much fun anymore because you just get exhausted and you kind of start to turn into a slightly peculiar person and you spend an awful lot of time living on a bus and you don’t really see your kids anymore,” explained Hales. “I had a couple of times when I came back and I had that heartbreaking thing of my little boy slightly kind of backing away from the strange man.”

Hales and his young family