Sam Fender has continued to tease his new album, this time by sharing a dwell model of his as-yet-unreleased music ‘Individuals Watching’ with followers – three years to the day his final album got here out.
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The North Shields singer posted a hyperlink on his Instagram Tales which takes followers to an internet web page the place they’re requested for his or her telephone quantity. Followers then obtain a textual content containing a hyperlink to a YouTube video of his efficiency of ‘Individuals Watching‘ at Boardmasters in August.
It’s the identical music he shared a teaser of on Instagram final week. On Wednesday (October 2), he shared snippets of him filming the audio system inside his studio to showcase two sections of the monitor.
Fender hasn’t launched numerous music since his 2021 Quantity One album ‘Seventeen Going Beneath’, his most up-to-date new tracks being ‘Homesick‘ with Noah Kahan after the American singer-songwriter re-recorded the hit for his digital album ‘Stick Season (Endlessly)’ and ‘Iris’, from the film Jackdaw.
It was on August 3 that he first performed ‘Individuals Watching’ dwell, together with one other unreleased music, ‘Nostalgia’s Lie’, with each set to seem on his upcoming third album.
This previous Saturday (October 5), Fender teased that the album – on which he’s had enter from The Warfare On Medication’ Adam Granduciel, is completed and “mastered”, sharing a sequence of pictures and movies from the studio on Instagram.
Whereas Fender left a niche of two years between his debut album ‘Hypersonic Missiles’ and ‘Seventeen Going Beneath’, there’s going to be a niche of a minimum of three between ‘Seventeen Going Beneath’ and his third album.
However he admitted earlier this yr that he “rushed” to finish his final album. In an interview on Sky Arts’ Johnson and Knopfler’s Music Legends, Fender shared: “The third one we began speeding and I assumed, ‘No, we’ve obtained to take the time’. I need to do one of the best I presumably can. I’d relatively or not it’s late and nice than early and shite. What we’ve obtained up to now I’m completely over the moon with however I need to give it that bit extra time and extra thought.”
Chatting with NME in September 2022, he supplied some extra ideas on the album, describing his new music as “very fairly” and having a robust “singer-songwriter” vibe – and mentioned that he wasn’t planning to put in writing music simply to fill huge venues. “If I attempt to pressure myself to put in writing stadium songs, we might find yourself fucking it I feel,” he defined. “As an alternative, I need to write in regards to the tales that I’ve and the place that I’m mentally at in my life at this level. And I’ve had lots to put in writing about.”
He continued, “I’m not dwelling in my mum’s flat anymore, and that’s the place numerous the songs have been written from the final file. However I’m nonetheless in [North] Shields, you recognize, I by no means left. I’m nonetheless mates with all the identical individuals. All my household and all my mates are nonetheless all in the identical boat, so there’s a stage of guilt that comes with it if you really feel like issues are going good, as a result of I’ve nonetheless obtained a great deal of buddies who’re dwelling in dire straits. It’s at all times there.”
As for ‘Seventeen Going Beneath’, which was named Finest Album In The World and Finest Album By A UK Artist on the BandLab NME Awards 2022, NME gave it 4 stars, calling it a “bruising” second album and saying, “If ‘Hypersonic Missiles’ was the sound of a younger boy kicking out on the world, ‘Seventeen Going Beneath’ sees Fender realise that it might probably relax lots tougher, and he counts each blow and bruise. However he appears to have discovered that point passes and that the majority wounds – even the deepest – will finally heal, if he can permit them to.”