Luke Winslow-King opens his latest chapter with Coast Of Light, an album that finds the songwriter leaning deeper into atmosphere, emotion, and instinct. Now based in Spain after more than a decade immersed in New Orleans’ musical ecosystem, Winslow-King sounds both grounded and restless, drawing from everything he has absorbed along the way while continuing to chase new terrain.

Raised in Cadillac, Michigan, Winslow-King’s path to this moment has never followed a straight line. His early foundation came through jazz and classical study, but it was the road that sharpened his voice. Years of busking across the United States taught him how to command attention with nothing but a guitar, a lyric, and conviction. That education eventually led him to New Orleans, where he spent more than fifteen years refining his craft, building community, and developing a sound shaped as much by the city’s history as by its sense of freedom.

Winslow-King’s music lives at the intersection of jazz, blues, folk, and classical influence, anchored by fluid guitar work and vocals that carry both weathered character and warmth. The New York Times once praised his ability to “seamlessly meld Delta blues, gospel and jazz themes with personal, simplified lyrics,” a quality that remains central to his writing. There is a directness to his songs that never feels plain, emotional weight delivered with restraint rather than spectacle.

On Coast Of Light, that approach expands outward. Inspired by the Atlantic coast of Andalusia, the album unfolds like a series of impressionistic scenes, shaped by shifting light, memory, and motion. Co-produced with longtime collaborator Roberto Luti, the record moves confidently through blues-rooted foundations while reaching into psychedelic textures and experimental edges. Themes of life, death, hope, and love surface naturally, woven into songs that feel reflective without turning inward.

Now nine albums into his career, Winslow-King continues to resist comfort and repetition. Coast Of Light captures an artist still curious, still searching, and still willing to follow a song wherever it leads. As the Austin Chronicle noted, he demonstrates “a wide range of songwriting worthy of comparison to Jason Isbell and John Fullbright,” a reminder that his strength lies not only in craft, but in his ability to make each new record feel alive in the moment.