Sam Fender announces new single ‘People Watching’ and teases album news

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Sam Fender has announced new single ‘People Watching’ and teased upcoming album news.The North Shields singer-songwriter singer shared a snippet of the song earlier this week, and has now told fans they can expect it in full on November 15.Taking to Instagram this morning (November 8), Fender thanked fans for “being patient”, and shared that the single artwork featured an image “from down the road in South Shields” shot by the late Tish Murtha.“It’s an honour to be able to use her art to help tell the story of the album,” he said, before teasing that there was “more album news” coming next Wednesday (November 13).

You can pre-order the single CD, which features B-side ‘Me And The Dog’ here, and pre-save the track here.A post shared by Sam Fender (@sam_fender)It was on August 3 that he first debuted ‘People Watching’ live, along with another unreleased song, ‘Nostalgia’s Lie’, with both set to appear on his long-awaited third album.Last month, Fender teased that the album is finished and “mastered”, having shared a series of photos and videos from the studio on Instagram, and revealed he had input from The War On Drugs’ Adam Granduciel when working on the record.While Fender left a gap of two years between his debut album ‘Hypersonic Missiles’ and ‘Seventeen Going Under’, there’s going to be a gap of at least three between ‘Seventeen Going Under’ and his third album.A post shared by Sam Fender (@sam_fender)But he admitted earlier this year that he “rushed” to complete his last album.

In an interview on Sky Arts’ Johnson And Knopfler’s Music Legends, Fender shared: “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.