Sam Fender teases new album is completed and “mastered”
Sam Fender has teased that his new album is now completed and “mastered”, with enter from The Conflict On Medicine’ Adam Granduciel.
Earlier this week, the Geordie singer-songwriter shared a teaser of a euphoric new tune on his Instagram Tales, with two snippets being made obtainable for twenty-four hours.
Now, one other Instagram publish sees Fender writing merely, “mastered x”, alongside a collection of photographs and movies of the inventive course of behind the making of the file. Try the publish under:
The photographs present Fender within the studio with a guitar strapped round his neck, in addition to photographs of the studio itself, a screenshot of Tom Petty’s ‘Love Is A Lengthy Highway’, and Granduciel taking part in keyboards alongside different musicians.
The movies embrace snippets of music, together with a heat, freestyle saxophone solo, in addition to dwell footage of Fender on stage.
Fender first hinted that he had been working with Granduciel in March, sharing footage of them within the studio collectively within the US, alongside producers, engineers and different musicians. One other tune snippet was shared at the moment, full with upbeat, anthemic riffs.
SAM VIA INSTAGRAM STORIES!! pic.twitter.com/YEVlqIhpPP
— Sam Fender Each day (@dailyfender) October 2, 2024
Fender has not launched an album since 2021’s ‘Seventeen Going Below’, his critically acclaimed second file. Since then, nonetheless, he has dropped the soulful ‘Iris’ from the Jackdaw soundtrack, and the Noah Kahan collaboration ‘Homesick’.
Since then, he confirmed to followers over the summer time that he had welcomed singer Brooke Bentham into his band, and shared that “her voice is everywhere in the subsequent album”. He additionally spoke with Brian Johnson and Mark Knopfler in Might as a part of the Sky Arts’ Music Legends collection, wherein he revealed that he felt “rushed” to launch his second file.
The long-awaited third album from Fender has been anticipated since he shared pre-order particulars final summer time. Forward of his two large homecoming reveals in June 2023 – which noticed over 100,000 followers flock to Newcastle’s St James’ Park stadium – a collection of billboards appeared near the stadium, and piqued followers’ curiosity.
The posters contained three variations of Newcastle United shirts, each representing one among his albums. The primary confirmed the garment with the primary on it — representing his debut — the second confirmed the quantity two, referring to his second LP, and the third got here with a QR code that followers might scan to obtain updates.
As for extra about what the brand new materials might sound like, Fender spoke to NME forward of his largest reveals up to now, and instructed us that the brand new music was sounding “very fairly” with a robust “singer-songwriter” vibe.