John Witherspoon unpacks emotional estrangement on stunning new single ‘My Baby’

Liverpool-based songwriter John Witherspoon returns with ‘My Baby’, an emotionally rich, slow-burning closer to his upcoming third album One Of Them (out Oct 31). A delicate ballad that gradually swells into a sweeping, full-band crescendo, the track marries intimacy with grandeur, drawing subtle inspiration from Arctic Monkeys’ croon-era romanticism and the layered narrative craft of Leonard Cohen.

Written during a period of creative drought, ‘My Baby’ cleverly breaks the fourth wall with meta-lyricism: “Did the dreaded verse one where the writer is blocked.” But what begins as self-aware confession blossoms into a stirring meditation on estrangement, between lovers, friends, or family. Witherspoon leaves the song’s subject intentionally blurred, offering space for multiple interpretations.

Recorded live with a band and referencing the album’s opener ‘True Love’, ‘My Baby’ provides poetic closure to an album rooted in the paradoxes of modern disconnection.