Sam Fender planning next album: “I’ve got a load of new songs already”

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Sam Fender has opened up about the plans for his next album and revealed that he’s already got some new songs for it.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.While appearing as a guest on Apple Music 1‘s The Zane Lowe Show, Fender opened up about working on the album with The War On Drugs‘ Adam Granduciel and revealed that he is already working on its follow-up.Speaking about working with Granduciel, Fender said: “It was an honour.

I mean, he was one of my biggest heroes. The first time I heard ‘Lost in The Dream’, that record, I was really ill at the time and I was in hospital for a while, and that whole year that I spent kind of recovering, that record, it was the only thing I really listened to.

So his music means a lot to me anyway. So the first time, it was one of those, it was such a weird thing. I was like, ‘I would love to work with him, but I know that he’s never produced outside of The War on Drugs.'”A post shared by Sam Fender (@sam_fender)He continued: “We have a saying in the North East and it’s ‘shy bairns get nowt’, which means shy kids getting nothing.

And I was like, ‘I’m just going to have to get a hold of him and see if he’d be up for it.’ So I asked the label and I got a hold of him and I was on the phone and I was just like, ‘Look, I would love you to do this.’ And then we got talking and we realised that we’re both listening to all the same stuff or just all the references, all the music that we love.