- 2024-11-15
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Sam Fender Announces New Album “People Watching”, Shares Title Track
British singer-songwriter Sam Fender has announced his upcoming third studio album “People Watching” will be released on February 21, 2025 via Polydor Records.
It is his first album in four years since the 2021 album “Seventeen Going Under”.
The album comprises 11 songs, produced by Sam Fender, Dean Thompson, Joe Atkinson, Markus Dravs, and Adam Granduciel.
He started making the album with producer Markus Dravs in London in 2023, and then, he finished with The War on Drugs' Adam Granduciel in Los Angles earlier 2024.
Sam Fender said of the album, “Me and the band have picked away at these songs for the last couple of years, we recorded so much material in that time and deliberated long and hard over what came next. We settled on this collection for our next outing. Special thanks to Dean and Joe who have been with me every step of the way, they are incredible producers in their own right and I'm eternally proud and grateful for them both. The band has really evolved in this time, I'm a lucky fucker to be surrounded by such a talented bunch.”- From the album, he released the title track “People Watching” on November 15, 2024.
The song received its first play during BBC Radio 1's New Music Show with Jack Saunders.
The track is written about his late friend Annie Orwin, who passed away last November.
Sam Fender said of the song, “People Watching is about somebody that was like a surrogate mother to me and passed away last November. I was by her side at the end, slept on a chair next to her. It's about what was going through my head, to and from that place and home.”
He added, “It's kind of ironic because she was the one that gave me the confidence to go on stage, and always used to be like 'why haven't you mentioned my name in your acceptance speech'. But now an entire song (and album) connects to her. I hope that wherever she is now she's looking down saying 'about time kid.'” -
Sam Fender told Jack Saunders about the song, “I was with my friend who was unwell, and she was in like a palliative care place, and it was just sort of about what was going through my mind. I guess when I was walking to and from the care home, because it was me and two wonderful nieces and mom Mae Jo who are very close to her, and who all kind of taken turns to be with her. So it was just sort of, it came from around, just the walks to and from there, from my house to where she was. It's just a song about how much I love, I really and how much I respected her. And as I said, she always used to be like, you haven't said anything. She was larger than life. So it was, I felt like she needed something that was soaring.”
Photo by Mac Scott - source : Apple Music
