Malcolm Todd announces new album ‘Do That Again’

The first time he played London, Malcolm Todd performed in a basement with the crowd shoulder-to-shoulder at The Lower Third; when he returned, he sold out Kentish Town Forum. The 22-year-old’s dizzying popularity poses a vision for a new kind of poster boy because he is unflinchingly real: self-doubts and radical vulnerability bring human texture to the dream.

He kicked off 2026 with ‘Breathe’, a silky RnB cut which is his highest debut ever reaching the top 50 on Spotify day one. It underlines the inescapable success of ‘Earrings’, the leading hit from his 2024 project Sweet Boy which continues to hit new peaks in the UK charts two years after its release. Cheeky, freewheeling and underpinned by a quiet sophistication, it set the tone for Malcolm Todd’s star which is in rapid ascent. Today, he announces his second album Do That Again set for release on June 5th which follows another taster of what’s to come with new single ‘I Saw Your Face’ – his highest chart debut to date.

While recording Do That Again, Malcolm Todd spent the summer newly single and bursting with life. Fresh off tour with friends in town and nothing to tie him down, the New York-based musician zipped through the dog days, staying out late, having the kind of time you spend the rest of the year in search of. But that spontaneous thrill ran parallel to a major focus. He was hard at work, too, pouring all that radiant vim straight into his new record, writing through and into his growth as both human and artist. Over six months at Electric Lady Studios in New York and Chaplin Recording Studios in Los Angeles, Todd logged long days and late nights with a tight-knit crew of collaborators until everything was exactly right.

Melodically and emotionally, ‘I Saw Your Face’ is the record’s standout. Todd wrote the poignant earworm in November and spent the next two months trying to crack the production—no drums, different drums, sped up, slowed down—before breaking it down and rebuilding it from scratch on the very last day of sessions. “I knew how good the song was,” he says. “I was starting to lose hope. And then at the last second, we just made it happen.” 

A gorgeous meditation on ending a relationship you know isn’t right and grieving it anyway, it captures something true and hard to say: that just because leaving was your choice doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt. “If I could wish for anything / It would all come back around,” he sings, sounding pained over the song’s breeze.

Malcolm Todd captures the complicated magic of those bambi steps in your twenties, from his days playing high school parties when he recorded his early EP Demos Before Prom to the point of releasing his self-titled debut album which has earned over 600 million global streams. He has toured the world with Omar Apollo, has already realised his teenage dream of performing at Camp Flog Gnaw and completed his Wholesome Rockstar Tour across the UK, Europe, the US and Australia where the strength of his already-immense fanbase could be felt in full force.

Tracks from his debut album continues to reach new heights: the breakout single ‘Chest Pain (I Love)’ earned Todd his first Billboard Hot 100 entry and has tallied over 350 million streams worldwide, reaching even further this year when Don Toliver prominently sampled it on his hit ‘E85’, and fan favourites ‘Sweet Boy’,  ‘Earrings’, and‘Roommates’ continue to climb the Spotify charts – a testament to a new kind of pop star who once heard, can’t be forgotten.