Grief Gave Lewis Knaggs Something to Pass On, with new single 'Forget How to Forgive'

Grief has a way of reorganising your priorities without asking permission first.

Lewis Knaggs knows this. 'Forget How to Forgive', his new single, was written in the shadow of loss and carries the particular clarity that follows: how quickly time moves once you've watched it run out for someone else, and how little sense it makes to keep waiting for permission to start living. "Trust your own path, live fully, and make the most of the time you're given," he shares, "because nobody else can tell you how to live it."

The recording matches the message. Knaggs captured the track in a single take, alone with an acoustic guitar and his voice, and left it exactly as it landed. No studio polish standing between the listener and the moment it was written. The intimacy is not an aesthetic choice so much as an honest one: this is a song about urgency, and a track that took weeks to finish would have betrayed the point.

That directness is characteristic of how Knaggs works. The London-based singer-songwriter fuses indie rock, Americana and grunge into a sound that is loud and introspective in equal measure, writing from a place of restlessness that has taken him from bedroom recordings to considerably bigger stages. His recent performance on Red Bull's stage at the Monaco Grand Prix placed that intimate, single-take sensibility in front of one of motorsport's loudest audiences. The contrast worked.

UK live dates and radio support are planned in the months ahead, with further releases to follow. 'Forget How to Forgive' marks the start of a new chapter for Knaggs: one shaped by loss, and by everything loss clarifies.

'Forget How to Forgive' is out now.