Paul Heaton – Jenius (EMI)

Ask Paul Heaton how many songs he’s written and he’ll tell you he’s not really sure. Perhaps that’s unsurprising: this summer it’s 40 years since The Housemartins released their debut album, Hull: 0 London: 4, peaking at number 3 in Britain. Subsequently, he’s released, in various configurations – with The Housemartins and The Beautiful South, solo and with Jacqui Abbot, not to mention as Biscuit Boy – another 21 studio albums, plenty going gold, some multi-platinum, as they’ve risen to the charts’ highest reaches. For each, moreover, he’ll have written many, many more songs than he’ll ever include.

Now, less than two years since ‘The Mighty Several’ – itself his sixth album to go Top 5 in a dozen years – this prolific, poetic observer of human nature is back with another fifteen gems. Silly or serious, poignant or pointed, therein lies Paul Heaton’s Jenius.

Tracklist 

Can’t Get Next to You

Favourite Kind of Idiot

I Want the Job

Sad Songs and Lawsuits

She Ain't Pretty

One Eye Open

Send In the Clowns

Do Not Ask Me

Don't Lean on Me

Jet Black Sky

The Whisky Did

Before Before

Good For the Bees

Go Upstream

A Son A Father

Version: Black Vinyl 2LP

Released: 21^st August 2026

Catalogue Number: EMIV2158

Condition: New Sealed