“There is no better feeling than that first minute after you’ve written a good song,” Lewis Capaldi tells Apple Music. “I hate sitting in a recording studio, because you’re taking something you love, making it really, really shit and then trying to bring it back to the point where you love it again.” He’s one of pop’s more self-effacing stars—and this is but one of a few traits he shares with fellow heartbreak documentarian Adele—but on debut album Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent, the Scottish singer-songwriter lays bare his heart in a display of blatant honesty. On hit track “Bruises”, the singer comes clean with a personal love story for the first time. “It was the first song I ever wrote that was actually about personal experience… I had just broken up with my first proper girlfriend of two years, and I was just getting back to being alone again… This song is the reason I am not unemployed and playing PlayStation in my underwear.” UK favourite “Someone You Loved” extends the lovelorn album to thematically include a broader sense of loss—the loss of a friend, loved one or family member. Check out Capaldi’s ballsy, timeless breakup album of skyscraping ballads and journey with him as he confronts the hurt of love—while savouring its sweetness—in his search for self.