Adi Lee

Adi Lee has returned with his emphatic new single ‘Working On A Sunday’. The Leeds based artist has begun building some momentum, rubbing shoulders with some of the biggest songwriters the UK has to offer. When asked about the record, Adi said “This song is based on many Sundays I’ve had working. The aim was to build a chorus that starts and ends strong. I wrote it with Kyle Falconer, Carl Barat, and Josh Kelly and I finished it in Manchester with a producer called Kris Evans”.

The cleverness of the songwriting is immediately evident. The track dives head first into the chorus, offering listeners everything it has right from the start. It delivers the hook and the emotional core upfront, driven by a chugging ukulele that keeps things moving with a raw, understated energy. It's simple, incredibly catchy, and deeply relatable. The chorus, “Why am I working on a Sunday? Why am I not getting what I want?” cuts straight to the point. It taps into that universal frustration. Those moments when you'd rather be with family or friends, but instead, you're stuck working for reasons beyond your control. This track will resonate with anyone who’s ever questioned the grind. It’s honest, catchy, and smart. It’s the song equivalent of ‘if you don’t laugh you’ll cry’. And the instrumentation adds to the tongue ‘n’ cheek subject of the song. A light hearted ukelele, delayed vocals and pop sounding drums that can really fill a space all add to the cleverness of this sound and this song.

The words in the verses meander in and out of frustration and burnout subjectivity; the quiet, inner dialogues that resound on early morning or lengthy drives to work. That feeling of purposeless thinking, the kind that drifts between resentment and resignation as the day works itself out before you. The melody mirrors this perfectly, cascading through those emotions with rises and dips that reflect the mental push and pull: moments of quiet acceptance followed by sharp pangs of questioning. It captures that headspace of being caught in the fog of going through the motions.

As it approaches the final stages of the song, it opens up so evocatively into a wide, open space for the audience, dropping to just claps and vocals, with other layers of instrumentation slowly creeping back in. The subtlety of it is so effective, clever and marks a songwriter who knows that this is going to be the kind of line people are going to want to shout out with each other. at gigs, in their cars, or alone in their room. The intentional space for a singalong, is not just clever arrangement, it is a sign of a writer who knows how music exists outside of the recording.

Adi Lee plays Liverpool's infamous Cavern Club on the 10th September, supporting The View’s ‘Kyle Falconer’ and a show at the Deaf Institute in Manchester on the 1st November, supporting ‘Adam Robinson’.