Dean Lewis Shares ‘The Epilogue (Deluxe)’
The expanded version of the Australian singer-songwriter’s 2024 album features the new single ‘Hurt So Bad.’
The Australian singer-songwriter Dean Lewis has released an expanded edition of his hit October 2024 album. The Epilogue (Deluxe) features the new single “Hurt So Bad” in addition to four other songs: “With You,” “I Hate That It’s True,” “Truth,” and a cover of “Iris” by Goo Goo Dolls. The Epilogue (Deluxe) is available in a limited edition 2LP yellow vinyl.
Lewis describes his new single “Hurt So Bad” as the final chapter in the trilogy of “Be Alright,” which recently reached 2 billion streams on Spotify. “There is ‘Be Alright’, ‘Hurtless,’ and ‘Hurt So Bad’ – the three songs in the trilogy. The song is about loving someone so much and losing yourself in the process, giving everything you have and them just disappearing out of your life and dealing with the aftermath of that.” The single is accompanied by a music video filmed in Malibu Creek State Park, Los Angeles by Sean Loaney, Lewis’ brother and creative director.
Lewis previously described the experience of making “I Hate That It’s True”: “Usually when I write a song it takes about a year before it can come out. I wrote ‘I Hate That It’s True’ about 10 weeks ago at an Airbnb in Bondi beach,” Lewis said. “The day I wrote it we spent 48 hours finishing the production, rushing it over to my team and adding it onto my deluxe album. For me the song is a hint at what is to come on my next album; in the sense of where I’m headed with my songwriting and the more acoustic raw production.”
The Epilogue includes tracks like “Trust Me Mate,” “Memories,” “All I Ever Wanted,” and “Empire.” Lewis has said of the record: “On this record, I started to get rawer and more acoustic again. I was trying to rekindle the simplicity of why things worked.”
In January 2026, Lewis will bring The Epilogue Global World Tour to North America. Those shows run through March.
