Sam Fender has previewed two unreleased songs at his Boardmasters present final night time (August 3) – watch fan-filmed footage beneath.
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The Geordie lately performed a present at Plymouth Pavilions, the place he gave two unreleased songs their dwell debut: ‘Folks Watching’ and ‘Nostalgia’s Lie’. Fender mentioned the 2 would seem on his upcoming third album.
It is going to be Fender’s first new music since January’s soulful ‘Iris‘, taken from the Jackdaw soundtrack, and his Noah Kahan collaboration ‘Homesick‘. He has additionally teased new music with The Conflict On Medicine frontman Adam Granduciel.
‘Folks Watching’ sees Fender replicate on passerbys he sees on the road, “envious on the glimmer of hope”, while ‘Nostalgia’s Lie’ seems to be a narration of Fender returning to his hometown: “These streets break my coronary heart / There’s ache and failure, the determined craving / For all my buddies who’re gone / These had been the occasions the place all of us had nothing”.
Take a take heed to ‘Folks Watching’ and ‘Nostalgia’s Lie’ beneath:
Following his intimate Plymouth present, Fender has teased extra dates to return, writing in response to his sold-out Boardmasters present:“Wow, that was fast. Extra dates coming quickly x.”
Fender additionally lately gave an replace to his incoming third album, admitting he “rushed” to launch ‘Seventeen Going Below‘.
“Now we have been recording and recording and making a great deal of stuff nevertheless it obtained to the purpose the place I assumed, ‘We don’t have to get this out but. We have to get it proper’,” he mentioned.
“For the second [‘Seventeen Going Under’], we rushed to get that out and the third one we began dashing and I assumed, ‘No, we now have obtained to take the time’.
“I need to do the most effective I probably can. I’d slightly or not it’s late and nice than early and shite,” he added. “What we now have obtained to date I’m completely over the moon with however I need to give it that bit extra time and extra thought.”
The singer final launched ‘Seventeen Going Below’ in 2021, which NME gave 4 stars. “If ‘Hypersonic Missiles’ was the sound of a younger boy kicking out on the world, ‘Seventeen Going Below’ sees Fender realise that it might relax lots 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 permit them to,” it learn.
