Exploring Sunjay’s New Album: Split The Sheets

October 25, 2026

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Sunjay’s tenth studio album, Split The Sheets, brings a long creative journey full circle. It follows Black & Blues Revisited (2022) and the critically acclaimed Chris Smither tribute I’m Just Like You (2024), two records that looked closely at the music, writers, and traditions that helped shape him as an artist. Split The Sheets completes that arc while also opening the door to something broader, bolder, and more personal.

Fresh from a successful UK tour, international appearances in the Czech Republic and Germany, and support from BBC Radio 2, Sunjay returns with what may be his most ambitious and sonically adventurous album to date.

At its heart, Split The Sheets is an album about love in all its contradictions. Across fourteen songs, Sunjay explores attraction, commitment, devotion, jealousy, humor, lust, heartbreak, regret, longing, and loss. It is a record about the light and shade of relationships, and about the many ways love can comfort, complicate, inspire, and undo us.

The material draws from some of the most distinctive songwriters of the last seventy years, including Stephen Bruton, Chris Smither, Townes Van Zandt, Jimmy Reed, Stan Rogers, Buddy Holly, Bo Diddley, and Lyle Lovett. Rather than treating those songs as museum pieces, Sunjay approaches them as living material, reshaping each one through his own voice, guitar style, and musical instincts.

Recorded at Get Real Studios in Bath and produced by Sunjay and Josh Clark, the album was built around one simple principle: serve the song. Some tracks were stripped back to their emotional core, while others were allowed to grow into fuller, louder, and more expansive studio arrangements. That flexibility gives Split The Sheets its range, moving naturally between intimacy and force without losing focus.

The first single, “Take Out Some Insurance,” Sunjay’s take on the Jimmy Reed classic, received support from BBC Radio 2 and led to an in-studio appearance on Cerys Matthews’ Blues Show. The follow-up single, “That’s Love,” written by the late Stephen Bruton, brings together sharp lyrical observation, an infectious groove, and a powerful full-band performance.

For more than fifteen years, Sunjay has built a reputation as one of the UK’s most accomplished and engaging live performers. A former BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award finalist, he has shared stages with artists including Steeleye Span, Fairport Convention, Curved Air, and Mud Morganfield, while developing a loyal following throughout the UK and Europe.

Whether performing alone with an acoustic guitar or fronting a full band, Sunjay brings the same qualities to the stage: strong musicianship, emotional honesty, and an instinctive connection with the songs he chooses to perform. That consistency has become one of the defining features of his career.

Now, ten albums in, Sunjay sounds more assured, more distinctive, and more comfortable in his own musical identity than ever. Split The Sheets may be rooted in the songs and artists that inspired him, but it does not feel like a backward-looking record. Instead, it feels like the beginning of a new chapter, one built on everything he has learned so far and driven by a renewed sense of confidence and possibility.

Split The Sheets will be released on September 18 on Mighty Tight Records.