The Verve's ex-frontman Richard Ashcroft is getting ready to release his first solo album, "Alone With Everybody," on Virgin Records on June 27, and in the meantime he's been getting a crash course in parenting a newborn.

Ashcroft and wife Kate Radley, the former Spiritualized keyboardist who also plays on her husband's new record, gave birth to a boy named Sonny on March 23 (see "Ex-Verve Frontman Richard Ashcroft Fathers Son").

Despite the hectic promotional schedule for his new solo album, Ashcroft told MTV News that he has managed to fit some sleep into his schedule in between changing diapers and minding Sonny.

"I've managed to grab a few hours [of sleep] now and then," Ashcroft said. he said, "and continues to be, on a daily basis, an affirmation of life from the moment I wake up, which is an incredible feeling."

Ashcroft also mentioned that the completion of his "Alone With Everybody" album came at almost the exact same time as Sonny's birth.

"It was almost a race at one point," he said.

"A Song For The Lovers," a track Ashcroft said was inspired, in part, by the Joy Division classic "Love Will Tear Us Apart," is the first single from "Alone With Everybody," and Ashcroft has already lined up "Money To Burn" as the second single from the record.