[Cover photo credit to Brandon Artis]
Indie Folk artist Luca Fogale has announced his forthcoming album, Challenger, due out January 30, 2025, via Nettwerk. The album will serve as a follow-up to 2020’s Nothing is Lost and 2023’s Run Where the Light Calls, both of which scored nominations for Best Adult Contemporary Album at Canada’s JUNO Awards.
The single and video for the single “Horizon” are also out now, which is a love song.
On Challenger, Fogale, who Produced the album himself, “grapples with generational patterns, apathy, masculine ideals and social tumult.”
On the album’s creation, he says:
This album was born out of questioning who I have become and what has shaped me, and in turn, considering how much of my past is no longer serving me — how much I can challenge, and how much I can let go of. The more time I spend engaging with this life, the wider my lens for the world gets. It requires me to reflect on myself and hold myself accountable for who I am. It raises the bar for who I want to be.
Regarding the song “Horizon”, Fogale shares:
Throughout the past few years, I have come to truly understand the depths of the love I’ve received and had the chance to offer, and how it’s given me the ability to know someone (and myself) with greater clarity than I ever thought possible. So many of the moments of joy and optimism that I feel in this life are because I have been pulled from times of darkness by unconditional love, and shown my worth and value through the eyes of someone else.
The “Horizon” music video “brings these ideas to life while also chronicling the evolution of Luca’s relationship with his faith.” Raised Catholic, Fogale has evolved “away from the church and towards a more humanistic faith in love and life itself” and this is captured in the video by director Michael Makaroff.
| “An Evening With Luca Fogale” Tour Dates |
| Sunday, November 7 – Victoria, BC – Wood Hall [SOLD OUT] |
| Tuesday, November 15 – Vancouver, BC – The Hargrove [SOLD OUT] |
| Wednesday, November 17 – Calgary, AB – Festival Hall |
| Friday, November 19 – Toronto, ON – Hugh’s Room |
