Sam Fender provides new album update and admits he “rushed” to get ‘Seventeen Going Under’ out
nme.comSam Fender has given an update on his new album, admitting he “rushed” to release ‘Seventeen Going Under‘.Fender gave the update in an upcoming appearance on Sky Arts’ Johnson and Knopfler’s Music Legends, which sees Brian Johnson and Mark Knopfler interview musicians including Fender, Tom Jones, Cyndi Lauper, Nile Rodgers, Carlos Santana and Emmylou Harris.In the forthcoming interview (as per Music News), the Geordie musician said of his next record: “We have been recording and recording and making loads of stuff but it got to the point where I thought, ‘We don’t need to get this out yet.
We need to get it right’.“For the second one [‘Seventeen Going Under’], we rushed to get that out and the third one we started rushing and I thought, ‘No, we have got to take the time’.“I want to do the best I possibly can.
I’d rather it be late and great than early and shite,” he added. “What we have got so far I am absolutely over the moon with but I want to give it that bit more time and more thought.”Fans have been expecting Fender’s third album since he shared some mysterious QR codes ahead of his 2023 Newcastle homecoming gigs, which turned out to be special edition Newcastle discs of his upcoming record.He also spoke about his next record in an interview with NME about his huge Newcastle gigs, describing his new music as “very pretty” with a strong “singer-songwriter” vibe.“If I try and force myself to write stadium songs, we could end up fucking it I think,” he admitted. “Instead, I want to write about the stories that I have and the place that I’m mentally at in my life at this point.
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