Today, Montreal-based singer-songwriter, film composer, and pianist Patrick Watson unveiled the enchanting music video for “Peter and the Wolf.”
The track marks the third single from his forthcoming album, Uh Oh, out September 26, 2025 via Secret City Records.
“Peter and the Wolf” is a magical and mystical pop ballad, wrapped in the cinematic flourishes and whimsical melancholy that Watson is so beloved for.
With its gentle piano melodies, layered textures, and dreamlike aura, the song conjures a fairytale world—one that feels both tender and quietly surreal.
About the track by Patrick:
“Peter and the Wolf”, a menacing, dream-like song inspired by the ghosts of New Orleans and the pitch black-ness of being in the forest in the dark. The pulse-pounding new video, directed by Patrick Watson and SAM WOY, was shot in the Quebec countryside.
“This is something I never could’ve written when I was younger,” says Watson. “When I originally wrote this track, I was with my partner Heather in the woods and she was talking about rewriting Peter and the Wolf. When you’re in the forest at night and it’s cloudy and the dark hits the tree line, it just goes pitch black. So I wrote the music thinking about that – not really a wolf, but that pitch-blackness. And then I went to New Orleans with Heather O’Neill and in the middle of the night, I took a walk outside, and New Orleans is just filled with ghosts at night – it’s a really magical place. I was all by myself and then this car came slowly down the street. It was this really classy car and there was this crazy low-end just purring from far away and kind of rolling towards me. In the low end it was shaking all the houses and all the windows, the way it moved was so graceful and slow, it was quite wonderful. There was just something about when I was staring at that car that reminded me of when I was staring into the forest at night. I was staring at the same ghost in a lot of ways—it felt like I was in a dream as it was coming towards me. And I thought, ‘I’m going to write this song as if the car is the wolf and I’m Peter.’
“The first half of the song is about that, and for the second half of the song, we went to this really far away middle-of-nowhere swamp where we all went through these crazy trailer places where it looked like they were going to kill us, but then we got to the end of the swamp, and it was this beautiful emerald green everywhere we looked and it was like this thing that you wanted to taste but you knew it would kill you in a way. While we were down there, we ran into a lot of French speaking people which was really fun since I’m from Quebec. I decided to make the swamp a mermaid because you want to get into it and swim in it but the moment you do that it will just swallow you like it swallows everything that flows into it, It’s interesting because that place is basically all of America flowing down there through it so that’s a very interesting sensation.”
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Patrick Watson – Peter and the Wolf [Music Video]
