“Back in Love” by Suki Waterhouse is about getting yourself back. Falling for someone again is just how she knows it worked.
Released March 27, 2026 and her first single on Island Records after two albums on Sub Pop, it is also the best thing Waterhouse has put out. The horn section, arranged by Sam Ewens over a production Jules Apollinaire built almost single-handedly, gives it a ’70s soul confidence that suits her. Her voice glides over it, soft and hypnotic.
She opens in a bad place. Loneliness as a feather bed, a William Tell image about giving someone else the power when you have run out of your own. “Happiness hits me when I’m back in love again” would not land the same way without all of that sitting behind it.
“See you catching up fast, now you know how to please me.” The chorus does not celebrate a relationship. It celebrates the person who got back to one.
Kaz Firpo’s video opens on an anatomical heart with a golden keyhole, then cuts to Waterhouse outside a converted church called Loveland, marquee reading “SUKI WATERHOUSE LIVE FOREVER.” She stands there with something to work out before she goes in. Inside, she performs in a 70’s shaggy fur coat with a live horn section behind her, takes an arrow mid-set, and carries on. The final shot is her walking out into the light, smiling.
The outro repeats “bang, bang, I’m back” until it fades. Not an announcement. More like something she is saying to herself.
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