Hearken to Noah Kahan and Sam Fender’s new collab ‘Homesick’

Noah Kahan has teamed up with Sam Fender on a collaborative new single, ‘Homesick’ – you possibly can take heed to it beneath.

The US singer-songwriter just lately teased a joint tune with a thriller artist, with many followers accurately guessing that Fender was singing on it. Later, the ‘Seventeen Going Below’ star confirmed the collab on social media.

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Immediately (January 19) Kahan has launched a brand new model of ‘Homesick’ that includes Fender. The unique model of the observe seems on Kahan’s 2022 album ‘Stick Season’. Per a press launch, the lower tackles his “sophisticated relationship” together with his Vermont hometown.

On the one, Kahan addresses the juxtaposing emotions of wanting to flee and chase his desires but in addition at all times desirous to return dwelling. His new collaborator Fender typically writes about his life rising up in North Shields – a working-class, former shipbuilding city in England’s northeast.

Talking about how their collab took place, Kahan defined: “After I first heard Sam Fender’s music, I finished what I used to be doing, began [playing] ‘Lifeless Boys’ from the start, and listened 4 extra occasions. It was every little thing I cherished a couple of tune.

“I adopted this artist like a loopy individual, checking day-after-day to see if he had dropped new music. Studying each lyric and on the lookout for his interpretation of what they meant. I will need to have listened to ‘Hypersonic Missiles’ 1,000 occasions earlier than ‘Seventeen Going Below’ got here out, and I had by no means felt so related to a tune.

“I come from a really completely different place than Sam did, that a lot was clear within the lyrics, nevertheless it felt like I had grown up the identical. The nostalgia, satisfaction, bitterness, confusion, and anger that Sam wrote about feeling was so much like what I used to be feeling about my childhood and my hometown on the time.”

He added: “This tune was the ultimate push for me to begin writing about my very own experiences.”

Kahan went on to recall how ‘Seventeen Going Below’ was “the very first tune we listened to” as he started to write down his document ‘Stick Season’. “The tune ‘Homesick’ was born out of the boldness instilled in me by listening to somebody precisely depict their hometown and what it means to them, for higher or for worse,” he stated.

“After I discovered I’d be capable to spend the day in Newcastle with Sam, I used to be nervous however excited. He welcomed me with open arms, let me into his world, confirmed me locations on this group that held a lot significance not solely to the city, however to Sam himself.”

Kahan remembered how he “felt very very similar to an outsider” initially, however stated he “did begin to perceive the place these songs had been coming from, and simply how particular of a man Sam actually is”.

He added: “He did a completely superb job bringing his expertise into my tune ‘Homesick’. He went above and past and I actually can’t thank him sufficient. I hope you take pleasure in this look into our worlds, and that it presents you an identical connection that I felt once I first heard this dude sing.”

Fender, in the meantime, stated he thought the unique model of ‘Homesick’ was “a lush tune”. After being approached to work with Kahan, the pair “spoke on the cellphone and instantly hit it off”.

“I cherished the concept of the tune being a transatlantic call-and-response between two younger youngsters determined to flee their hometowns,” he defined. “The ‘working away’ theme has been accomplished to loss of life on my own, and lots of different artists over the past 50 years, nevertheless it’s relatable.

“Noah really got here to my hometown of Newcastle when he was on tour, so we met up and I confirmed him round. I discovered it canny humorous and flattering as he stated in his east coast American accent, ‘I wanna see the place these songs got here from, man’.

“So we hit the Lowlights Tavern for a swift Guinness and walked within the bitter chilly of the seafront. Chatting with him about issues in each of our pasts made me realise how common ‘Homesick’ is. We’ve all been that child.”

Fender recorded his elements for the collaboration in North Shields, “actually overlooking the ‘static cranes’ that I point out in my verse; it’s a stone’s throw from the property through which the riots befell within the early 90’s”.

“It made me happy with my hometown, and my individuals,” he stated. “The Geordies are a hilarious bunch, resilient and impermeable to arduous occasions and arduous ingesting; my hometown is a continuing supply of inspiration.

“Noah is nice lad, a canny chanter and a imply wordsmith. I like the observe, and I can’t look ahead to individuals to listen to it.”

Kahan is about to embark on a UK and European headline tour this summer season. The run of dates consists of two exhibits at The O2 in London, in addition to stop-offs in Manchester, Newcastle and Birmingham.

Subsequent month, he’ll head to the UK and Eire for concert events in Dublin, Glasgow, Leeds, Cardiff and London. Find any remaining tickets here.

Kahan is nominated for the Greatest New Artist award on the Grammys 2024, that are as a consequence of happen in Los Angeles on February 4.

In different information, Sam Fender final week shared a soulful new tune known as ‘Iris’, taken from the soundtrack to the movie Jackdaw.