Damian Lewis Announces New Album ‘Sweet Chaos’ And Shares Expansive Title Track

Award-winning actor and musician Damian Lewis has announced details of his second studio album Sweet Chaos, set for release on 5th June 2026, alongside the arrival of its powerful title track.

Damian Lewis

Damian Lewis (Steve Gullick)

Following the success of his 2023 debut Mission Creep, Lewis returns with a record shaped by reflection, growth and a more confrontational emotional edge. Where his debut was marked by introspection and grief, Sweet Chaos finds him pushing further, both sonically and thematically, into bolder territory.

“The first album was quiet and tender,” Lewis explains. “This new album is a bit angrier in places… you don’t know these things until you listen back: the extent to which your state of mind pervades the thing.”

The newly released single Sweet Chaos sets the tone for the record’s wider ambition. Written with live performance in mind, it unfolds on a sweeping, cinematic scale, built around the idea of a life disrupted by chaos, only for that upheaval to unlock something liberating and transformative. It’s a statement of intent that signals a clear step forward in Lewis’s musical journey.

The album itself came together following a turning point collaboration with renowned producer Guy Chambers, whose work helped reshape the project after earlier sessions stalled. Recorded in west London, the partnership brought a renewed clarity and focus to the material, with Lewis crediting Chambers’ experience and honesty as pivotal to the album’s direction.

Across its ten tracks, Sweet Chaos moves between brooding blues-rock, expansive storytelling and moments of quiet vulnerability. Songs like No Man’s Land and Leech confront themes of love and grief under pressure, while Pentonville Prison revisits a near-fatal motorcycle accident from Lewis’s past. Elsewhere, Traffic Jam nods to David Bowie in both tone and imagery, and closing track Fix Me Up features a striking duet with Alison Mosshart of The Kills.

Throughout, Lewis’s songwriting remains rooted in narrative and lived experience, delivered with a voice that continues to carve out its own identity beyond his acting career. There’s a sense that Sweet Chaos is not just a follow-up, but a defining statement, one that leans fully into the emotional and performative power of music.

With a full tour yet to be announced, Lewis will preview the album through a series of intimate in-store performances across the UK this June, offering fans an early glimpse of material clearly designed with the stage in mind.

Upcoming UK Live Dates:

JUNE – In-Store Performances
5th – Leeds, Crash x Headrow House
6th – Liverpool, Jacaranda Club
7th – Marlborough, Sound Knowledge x St Peter’s Church
9th – London, Rough Trade East
11th – Kingston, Banquet x St John’s Church

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