myles smith has shared “Hold Me In The Dark,” a new song from his debut album, “My Mess, My Heart, My Life.” The release adds another track to a rollout that now runs into a 19 June album date and a 9 May television slot on Saturday Night Live UK.
Hold Me In The Dark
“Hold Me In The Dark came from a really honest place,” Smith said, and he tied that honesty to feeling stuck in his own thoughts and not knowing how to get out. He also said he wrote from a childhood shaped by headphones, which he used to block out shouting and chaos at home.
Smith said music became one of the first places he ever felt safe because he did not have many friends growing up and moved around a lot. That gives the new single a sharper edge than a standard album teaser: it arrives as part of a first full-length rollout built around personal memory rather than a generic launch cycle.
My Mess, My Heart, My Life
“My Mess, My Heart, My Life” is due on 19 June via Sony Music UK/RCA Records and is built across three connected chapters titled Mess, Heart, and Life. The tracklist includes “Stargazing,” “Nice To Meet You,” “Drive Safe,” “Gold,” and “Stay (If You Wanna Dance),” with “Drive Safe” set as a duet with Niall Horan.
The structure matters because it signals an album designed as a sequence, not a pile of singles. For a debut full-length, that kind of framing asks listeners to treat the record as a complete statement, and it puts “Hold Me In The Dark” in the middle of a larger narrative rather than as a standalone release.
Saturday Night Live UK
Smith will appear as musical guest on Saturday Night Live UK on 9 May, on the penultimate episode of the show’s first season. Hannah Waddingham will host that episode, giving the song a high-profile television platform before the album arrives next month.
The timing gives the rollout some friction as well as momentum: Smith is promoting a song built around not being alone while also stepping into a live television slot that can widen the audience fast. He said, “It’s not about fixing everything, it’s about not being alone in it.” That is the song’s cleanest pitch, and it is likely the one that will travel best into the album cycle.
