When will Paul McCartney’s new album be released?
We can sit here and debate who the greatest songwriter of all time is for hours, but at some point down the line, Paul McCartney’s name is inevitably going to come up.
We’re talking here about a man who dreams in melody, quite literally, as the Beatle, when waking up from a much-needed slumber, did so with the tune to ‘Yesterday’ running around in his head. With that, he headed over to the piano and dragged the tune from the back of his subconscious to offer the world one of the greatest songs ever written.
If you were to ask McCartney what advice he would give to songwriters, he would tell them to ensure they play into their individuality, as doing so allows you to be both weird and innovative, but also be personable. Having a great deal of individuality within your music means that you can write tracks that sound like something people might not have heard before. Equally, you might end up making something incredibly personable, which onlookers can in turn relate to.
“I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird,” said McCartney, talking about the importance of musicians being totally individual, “I suddenly realised that anyone doing anything weird wasn’t weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird.”
He also spoke about people being able to relate to the music he makes, using Bruce Springsteen as an example, saying how ‘The Boss’ was suddenly able to connect a lot more with the love songs he wrote the minute he himself fell in love.
“He said, ‘I didn’t get it, but I really get it now, man’,” recalled McCartney, “And it’s something that happens. He’s fallen in love, he’s had kids, and he’s more able to accept that thought, which bothered a lot of people at the time.”
Given McCartney’s individuality and personability, everyone everywhere was ecstatic when it was revealed that he was working on new music. The story goes that he spent the majority of 2025 putting together something brand new, and that now, it’s 90% finished, which begs the question of when this new record will be released.
So, when will Paul McCartney’s new album be released?
The song begins with a simple guitar line, straightforward chords are prettily plucked, nothing flash, and leaving not much else to say about the track other than it’s started. You’re only waiting 20 seconds and then McCartney’s sweet-sounding (albeit fragile) vocals glide over the top of it all. The next three minutes are wonderful, quick in passing, but infinite in what they capture. His new single ‘Days We Left Behind‘ is entrenched in beautiful memory, as McCartney admitted in a clip shared by BBC Radio Merseyside that he struggles to write about anything other than the past these days.
“So this next song is very much a memory song for me,” he said, “I was thinking just that, about the days I left behind, and I do often wonder if I’m just writing about the past, but then I think, how can you write about anything else?”
The Beatle continued, “It’s a lot of memories of Liverpool for me and that involves a little in the middle about John, Forthlin Road, a street I used to live in, this is where the title of the album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, came from. Dungeon Lane is near there. I used to live in a place called Speke, which is quite working class.”
Yes, you read that right, the album. Along with this new single, Paul McCartney has confirmed that he will be releasing a new record, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, on May 29th. This new LP isn’t just a flash in the pan from McCartney either, as he apparently spent five years writing and putting it together with producer Andrew Watt.
With his new single, McCartney shows that despite six decades passing since he woke from a dream with the melody to ‘Yesterday’ stuck in his head, he’s still got a knack for songwriting. Feel free to write about the past, Paul, as if that kind of talent isn’t worth looking back on, then I don’t know what is.
Paul McCartney – The Boys of Dungeon Lane tracklist
- ‘As You Lie There’
- ‘Lost Horizon’
- ‘Days We Left Behind’
- ‘Ripples in a Pond’
- ‘Mountain Top’
- ‘Down South’
- ‘We Two’
- ‘Come Inside’
- ‘Never Know’
- ‘Home to Us’
- ‘Life Can Be Hard’
- ‘First Star of the Night’
- ‘Salesman Saint’
- ‘Momma Gets By’
