Tom Walker says "sitting around in his underwear" would have been better than working on album

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Tom Walker binned his planned follow up to his No1 album What A Time To Be Alive and says he would have been better sitting around in his underwear playing computer games.Kilsyth-born Tom, 32, claims he put himself under unnecessary pressure to come up with a set of stadium bangers during the Covid 19 pandemic.During lockdowns The Leave A Light On singer retreated to his bedroom, occasionally speaking with other members of his group on Zoom, only to realise much later that he’d missed the mark with the new material.Tom said: “During the pandemic it was tough for musicians.

We toured for five years straight nonstop doing gigs and festivals and really exciting stuff like going to the Brit Awards.“All of a sudden that just stopped and I was home for the first time and it felt like an eternity.

I was not really sure what to do and what the next step was.“Not being able to go and gig and have that buzz or be in the studio I tried to do everything at home and write an album in my bedroom with no collaborators other than the people that I work with on Zoom, which, in hindsight, was a complete waste of time.“ I should have sat in my pants playing XBox.” Five years after his debut, Tom is back with new album I Am, which he recorded in Los Angeles.“It took me a while longer to write this one, I'll be honest,” Tom said. “One reason is I binned a whole album because I didn't think it was right.“On my tour two years ago I played a bunch of new songs and it just didn't quite feel as though they were as good as they could be.“So I did start again.”He lucked out when he teamed up with producers The McDonough brothers, who have worked with the likes of US singer-songwriter Khalid, Thirty Seconds To Mars and John Legend.He said: “On the