Luke Potter turns collapse into catchiness on new single 'The Misery'

Luke Potter has always had a gift for taking emotional wreckage and polishing it until it glints, but 'The Misery' might be his sharpest alchemy yet. It’s the sound of someone sifting through the rubble of a life they thought they understood, humming through the ache because the silence would hurt worse.

On first listen, the track feels deceptively light with its warm guitars, a rhythm that moves with a gentle twang, and a chorus so sticky it practically sings itself. But all the brightness is a decoy. Beneath its sunny delivery lies a gut-punch of a truth: the moments we broadcast to the world don’t always match the ones unfolding behind closed doors.

He leans into that contradiction with disarming candour. His voice carries the weight of someone still slightly out of breath from the impact, tracing the aftershock of a long partnership cracking apart. But what lingers is the kind of love that keeps you awake, replaying scenes you thought you understood, and trying to pinpoint where the ground first shifted.

What makes 'The Misery' so compelling is his refusal to let heaviness sink the song. Instead, he folds pain into something surprisingly buoyant, giving the track the emotional accuracy of a diary entry and the immediacy of a pop earworm.

There’s maturity here too. Instead of casting blame, he reaches for a recognition that endings carry their own kind of learning. It’s a quiet triumph, delivered at full melodic bloom.

With a catalogue already boasting tens of millions of streams and an ever-expanding list of collaborations, Luke Potter could easily coast. But 'The Misery' shows him pushing deeper, writing with more vulnerability, and letting the cracks show in a way that feels brave and grounding.

If heartbreak is a universal language, Luke Potter has just written one of its catchiest new dialects.