Sam Fender seemed to arrive as an everyman hero with his 2019 debut album ‘Hyersonic Missiles‘ – a vivid picture of the frustrations of small-town life via working class struggle, young male suicide and living for the weekend.
For his stellar 2021 follow-up ‘Seventeen Going Under‘, the North Shields troubadour pushed down even harder on his bruises – revisiting painful periods of his youth to make sense of them and recover.It was that built-in spirit of breaking free of the shackles of hard times that really captured the spirit of 2021, struck of with thousands of young listeners from a lost generation, and made ‘Seventeen Going Under’ NME‘s unquestionable Album Of The Year.“It can be dour, and I think we’ve had a very dour year,” Fender.
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