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Sep 18, 2025 By Caleb Campbell

Liverpool-based indie singer/songwriter John Witherspoon has spent the last few years crafting plaintive guitar pop, steeping his songcraft in an intimate lyrical lens and a penchant for perennial pop melody. He debuted in 2020 with his first LP, Showin’ up, Startin’ Again, before following with 2023’s Heart in, Head Out. He returned earlier this year with a handful of new singles, “Natural Light,” “End of the Line Again,” and “You’re Alright,” teasing his forthcoming third LP, One of Them, due out on October 31st.

For One of Them, Witherspoon says he adopted a more organic and collaborative approach, recording with a band live in the studio and allowing for moments of intuitive inspiration. Similarly, the record’s themes find Witherspoon bristling against feelings of alienation and isolation, searching for authentic connection amidst a collective haze of digital artifice. As he describes, “This album is about disconnection in a seemingly connected world. Most of my writing is autobiographical, and I think One Of Them offers a pretty even split of my light and dark sides.”

Today, Witherspoon is sharing the record’s fourth and final single, “My Baby,” premiering early with Under the Radar.

“My Baby” closes the record on a sprawling, hook-laden finale, beginning as a delicate piano lullaby and ending on an anthemic sing-along moment. It gets there by way of timeless pop songcraft, feeling unabashedly tender and nostalgic. It pulls from a bygone era of doleful pop melody, but also comes laced with winsome piano rock, walls of sound, and jangling guitar tones, all knit together by Witherspoon’s charming croons. Lyrically, the track traces a story of reconciliation, but it also leaves enough room for the listener to find their own stories within Witherspoon’s narrative. “It ends up being about 3 or 4 different people, but for the listener, they’ve amalgamated into one,” he explains.

Witherspoon says of the track, “The song deals with the often senselessness of estrangement. We all have people we wish we were still tight with, but I feel as if you almost don’t get to decide who you’re closest to, in terms of regular dialogue.” The deliberately ambiguous nature of the song’s addressee allows it to deal with different types of relationships simultaneously. “For some listeners, I hope it’s about a lover, for others, I hope it’s about a friend, for others, I hope it’s about family. For me, it’s about all of them.”

Check out the song below. One of Them is due out everywhere on October 31st.