British singer songwriter Matt Hales, aka ‘Aqualung’ is back with a new album. ’10 Futures’ features collaborations with fellow Brits Joel Compass, SOHN, Prides and more.<br /><br /> Aqualung kicked off his international career in 2002 with his debut single ‘Strange and Beautiful (I’ll Put a Spell on You)’, which was also used in a major ad campaign for the Volkswagen Beetle. <br /><br /> Five successful albums later, after a flourishing international career, Hales decided to walk away from the spotlight, announcing his ‘retirement’ as a recording artist in 2010.<br /><br /> “There’s a point at which it starts to not be as much fun anymore because you just get exhausted and you kind of start to turn into a slightly peculiar person and you spend an awful lot of time living on a bus and you don’t really see your kids anymore,” explained Hales. “I had a couple of times when I came back and I had that heartbreaking thing of my little boy slightly kind of backing away from the strange man.”<br /><br /> Hales and his young family
