Love Spells announces debut album Love Is the Law with new single “Keep It to Yourself”

Harris’s path to Love Is the Law wasn't straightforward. He made music while navigating homelessness, eventually making his way to California to crash with a friend he’d met online. A daily routine of shuttling to different studios allowed him to hone a sound that eventually caught the ear of Kevin Abstract, who brought him in to work on the 2025 album Blush. That connection led to relationships with regular collaborators Dominic Fike and Deb Never, and ultimately to the sessions that produced the debut LP, recorded with Danny Parra, Boy Deco, Brad Hale, Rodaidh McDonald, Alex Craig and Rick Nowels.

In the studio, Harris chased the sensation of losing himself on a dancefloor, filtering his love of ’70s, ’80s and New Wave music through a contemporary lens. Films like Dirty Dancing and Footloose were on his mind too, as a tonal reference point. He wanted the record to feel “theatrical yet authentic.”

Harris has described the record as an examination of love’s hold on everyday life. “Our lives revolve around love,” he says. “We do so many things because of it and so many problems come out of it.” That perspective steers an album that was shaped in part by long nights at Numbers, the Houston dance club that long served as a safe haven for the city’s alternative communities, as well as his mixture of indie rock, psychedelia, and dream pop.

“Keep It to Yourself”, the lead single, "is about realizing everybody doesn’t deserve access to what’s sacred between two people," Harris explains. “Sometimes love and its problems sound better in private. Some things you just gotta keep to yourself.”

Directed by Tanner Deutsch, the video leans on choreography and poised movement to tell its story, a method Harris first explored in the clip for April’s single “Crutch”. Both visuals use dance as the primary emotional language. “Crutch” charted on the NACC Top 200 and helped build momentum for the debut, as did a run of sold-out underplay shows across Los Angeles that cemented Harris’s reputation as a performer worth watching

The album’s release will be backed by a 28-date headline world tour that kicks off this summer, including a stop at London’s Moth Club on 27 August and an appearance at All Points East the following day. Artist pre-sale begins on Tuesday 2 June at 10am local, with general on-sale following on Friday 5 June.

Love Is the Law artwork