Sam Fender has continued to tease his new album, this time by sharing a dwell model of his as-yet-unreleased tune ‘Folks 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 ‘Folks Watching‘ at Boardmasters in August.
It’s the identical tune 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 a number of music since his 2021 Quantity One album ‘Seventeen Going Below’, 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 ‘Folks Watching’ dwell, together with one other unreleased tune, ‘Nostalgia’s Lie’, with each set to look 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 Medicine’ Adam Granduciel, is completed and “mastered”, sharing a sequence of photographs and movies from the studio on Instagram.
Whereas Fender left a niche of two years between his debut album ‘Hypersonic Missiles’ and ‘Seventeen Going Below’, there’s going to be a niche of at the least three between ‘Seventeen Going Below’ and his third album.
However he admitted earlier this 12 months 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 believed, ‘No, we’ve acquired to take the time’. I wish to do the perfect I presumably can. I’d slightly or not it’s late and nice than early and shite. What we’ve acquired to this point I’m completely over the moon with however I wish to give it that bit extra time and extra thought.”
Talking to NME in September 2022, he supplied some extra ideas on the album, describing his new music as “very fairly” and having a powerful “singer-songwriter” vibe – and stated that he wasn’t planning to write down music simply to fill large venues. “If I try to pressure myself to write down stadium songs, we might find yourself fucking it I believe,” he defined. “As an alternative, I wish to write concerning the tales that I’ve and the place that I’m mentally at in my life at this level. And I’ve had so much to write down about.”
He continued, “I’m not residing in my mum’s flat anymore, and that’s the place a number of the songs had been written from the final report. However I’m nonetheless in [North] Shields, , I by no means left. I’m nonetheless buddies with all the identical folks. All my household and all my buddies are nonetheless all in the identical boat, so there’s a stage of guilt that comes with it whenever you really feel like issues are going good, as a result of I’ve nonetheless acquired a great deal of buddies who’re residing in dire straits. It’s at all times there.”
As for ‘Seventeen Going Below’, which was named Greatest Album In The World and Greatest 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 Below’ sees Fender realise that it might probably relax so much more durable, 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 ultimately heal, if he can enable them to.”
