Sir Teagan Harris is the Houston-born creative mastermind behind the rising, solo recording project Love Spells. At 18, Harris poured his passion for love into music, manifesting a career out of ambition and drive, while battling homelessness for years. Eventually, he wound up in California, where h lived with a friend he met online, traveling to different music studios everyday to perfect his sound. After six months, he returned to Houston and received a call from Kevin Abstract, who invited I’m to work on his most recent album, last year’s Bluish.
Working on Kevin Abstract’s Blush connected Harris to his now frequent collaborator Dominic Fike and Deb Never. That life changing experience pushed Harris to return to Los Angeles and work on his highly-anticipated Love Spells debut, LOVE IS THE LAW. Slated for a July 24, 2026 release through RCA Records, LOVE IS THE LAW found the Houston-born artist working with Danny Parra, Boy Deco, Brad Hale, Rodaidh McDonald, Alex Craig, and Rick Nowels to create material that recalled his nights at Numbers, a beloved Houston-based dance club and safe heaven for alternative communities. While at Numbers, Harris danced to 70s, 80s and New Wave, and he specifically wanted to inject that feeling into his work, seeking out similar spaces in Los Angeles and leaning on those eras in the studio. Movies like Dirty Dancing and Footlose were also sources of inspiration, helping the Houston-based artist and his collaborators craft a “theatrical yet authentic” feeling.
LOVE IS THE LAW will include the previously released “Crutch,” “Keep It To Yourself” and the album’s latest single “Maybe I Still Love You.” “Maybe I Still Love You” is a slow-burning and atmospheric bit of Quiet Storm-meets-Bill Withers-inspired R&B that features Harris’ achingly tender and yearning falsetto dancing alongside a sparse arrangement of twinkling piano, bursts of shimmering and soulful guitar, a simple backbeat, a supple bass line. The song’s narrator finds closure and freedom in recognizing the true depths of his emotions.
“‘Maybe I Still Love You’ is for anyone still fighting with feelings they can’t ignore, that moment of coming to terms with the fact that you still care and want to keep caring,” Harris explains. “Because above all, you have to believe in love for love to be seen.”
Directed by Colt Grice, the accompanying video for “Maybe I Still Love You” features a couple doing a simple two-step slow dance together while embracing. The couple’s story is up to interpretation but there’s palpable sense of love, the sort of love that at times is demanding and difficult yet worth fighting for.
The rising Houston-born artist will be embarking on a lengthy and expensive tour to support LOVE IS THE LAW. The tour includes a September 23, 2026 stop at Bowery Ballroom. Check out the tour dates below.
LOVE IS THE LAW 2026 WORLD TOUR
07/30 – Chicago, IL – House of Blues *
07/31 – Lollapalooza – Chicago, IL ^
08/22 – Pukkelpop Festival – Hasselt, BE ^
08/24 – Kantine am Berghain – Berlin, DE
08/25 – Blue Shell – Cologne, DE
08/27 – Moth Club – London, UK SOLD OUT
08/28 All Points East Festival – London, UK ^ SOLD OUT
08/30 – Rock en Seine Festival – Paris, FR ^ SOLD OUT
08/31 – POPUP! – Paris, FR LOW TICKETS
09/01 – Paradiso (Upstairs) – Amsterdam, NL LOW TICKETS
09/12 – Valley Bar – Phoenix, AZ LOW TICKETS
09/14 – Club Dada – Dallas, TX LOW TICKETS
09/15 – Antone’s – Austin, TX LOW TICKETS
09/16 – White Oak Music Hall (Upstairs) – Houston, TX LOW TICKETS
09/18 – Bon House – Atlanta, GA SOLD OUT
09/19 – Cat’s Cradle Back Room – Carrboro, NC
09/23 – Bowery Ballroom – New York, NY SOLD OUT
09/24 – Sinclair – Boston, MA
09/25 – PhilaMOCA – Philadelphia, PA LOW TICKETS
09/26- All Things Go – Washington, DC
09/27 – The Ritz – Raleigh, NC *
09/29 – Third Man – Detroit, MI
09/30 – Longboat Hall – Toronto, ON VENUE UPGRADE
10/02 – Schubas – Chicago, IL LOW TICKETS
10/03 – 7th Street – Minneapolis, MN
10/05 – Globe Hall – Denver, CO
10/06 – Kilby Court – Salt Lake City, UT
10/09 – Barboza – Seattle, WA
10/10 – Polaris – Portland, OR
10/12 – August Hall – San Francisco, CA VENUE UPGRADE
10/14 – Constellation Room – Santa Ana, CA SOLD OUT
10/15 – Voodoo Room @ HOB – San Diego, CA
10/16 – The Roxy – Los Angeles, CA SOLD OUT
10/17 – The Roxy – Los Angeles, CA NEW ADD
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* supporting Suki Waterhouse
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