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Sam Fender comes of age with new album People Watching's 'human experience'

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“I WATCH people on the way back home,” sings Sam Fender on the soul-bearing title track of his new album. With its widescreen ambition, driving intensity and visceral lyrics, People Watching can’t fail to draw familiar comparisons to Fender’s “biggest hero”, Bruce Springsteen. Sarah Louise BennettSam Fender, here in North Shields studio in 2021, is back at long last with new album People Watching – four year on from his previous studio offering …

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The Sun

Sam Fender comes of age with new album People Watching's 'human experience'

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Album Review: Sam Fender, People Watching

Finest effort yet from the indie-pop supremo. 9/10 England’s neglected corners have always been a focal point on Sam Fender’s records. On his third album, the North Shields native continues this exploration. What’s different is that he’s looking through the lens of someone who’s made it out – whose success has perhaps rendered them an outsider. ‘I’m not preaching, I’m just talking,’ he sings on ‘Crumbling Empire’. ‘I don’t wear the shoes I used …

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Sam Fender Releases Third Album ‘People Watching,’ Announces Major Outdoor Shows for 2025

Sam Fender today releases his third album, the critically acclaimed People Watching. It follows 2021’s chart-topping Seventeen Going Under and is released via Polydor Records. Now solidified as one of Britain’s most accomplished songwriters of his generation and the next, if Seventeen Going Under was Sam’s “coming of age” record, People Watching is his next step forward – colourful stories and observations […]

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Sam Fender - People Watching

Buy People Watching Here It’s easy to be skeptical of Sam Fender. Blond, blue eyed, looking like Gary Barlow’s indie kid brother, with a name that feels like a brand endorsement, when he picked up the Critics Award at the 2019 BRITs, you might have mistaken him for the industry’s latest tastefully distressed millennial singer-songwriter. But since his debut single in 2017, the canny chanter from North Shields has emerged as the most driven, dist…

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Review | Sam Fender - People Watching - Clunk Magazine

Sam Fender's ‘People Watching’ is an all-important album from a man that never ceases to impress with his ability to remain true at any level.

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NME

Sam Fender planning next album: "I've got a load of new songs already"

Sam Fender has opened up about the plans for his next album and revealed that he’s already got some new songs for it. READ MORE: Sam Fender live in Leeds: generational Geordie star safely coasts into a new era The BRIT award-winning rocker is set to release his third album ‘People Watching’ tomorrow (February 21) and has previewed the project with four tracks: ‘Remember My Name‘, ‘Arm’s Length’, ‘Wild Long Lie’ and the album’s title track. Whil…

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