That’s what’s happening in the album-opening title track from People Watching, the third LP by U.K. pop-rock star Sam Fender. “I people watch on the way back home/Envious of the glimmer of ...

In 2021, Sam Fender released his second album Seventeen Going Under. Arriving amid COVID lockdowns in the U.K., the record tapped into the nation’s reflective mood, and saw the high-flying ...

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THE SKINNY: Sam Fender fell at the tricky second album hurdle, not in the world’s eyes as Seventeen Going Under only stepped up his notoriety, but in his own. Everything felt too rushed to him. He was ...

In an effort to make everything sound as massive as possible, the team obscures some of Fender’s more pointed moments. On the title track, he returns to his hometown to see his elderly mentor ...

Sam Fender is fighting the good fight on behalf of the lost art of the music video. In January, the Brit- and Mercury-nominated English songwriter and 2025 Glastonbury headliner recruited the ...

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With his Geordie twang and knack for storytelling, with People Watching, Sam Fender has created an album for the history books. The title track sets the nostalgic tone for the record as Fender ...

The themes on this record aren’t new to Fender, but the perspective in which he examines them has shifted. Both his debut, ‘Hypersonic Missiles’, and the Brit-nominated ‘Seventeen Going ...