The War On Drugs’ Adam Granduciel on working with Sam Fender: “I didn’t realise how much of a musical savant he was”

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The War On Drugs’ Adam Granduciel has opened up about working with “musical savant” Sam Fender on his forthcoming album.Fender will release his third album ‘People Watching’ on February 21 via Polydor (pre-order/pre-save here).

The record was produced by Fender alongside his bandmates Dean Thompson and Joe Atkinson, producer Markus Dravs and Granduciel.The ‘Seventeen Going Under’ singer first hinted he had been working with the musician back in March, sharing footage of them in the studio together in the US, alongside producers, engineers and other musicians.In a further update from October, he teased that the new album was finished and “mastered” with input from Granduciel, who has since spoken to Guitar.com about the process.A post shared by Sam Fender (@sam_fender)“I fell in love with him.

He’s a savant,” he told the publication. “Sam and the boys came out in March for about five weeks. We worked on some stuff they’d already started, then we worked on some more stuff from the ground up.

It was awesome. I’d never met Sam, but we’d communicated once or twice.”“I fell in love with him,” Granduciel said. “He’s a savant.