Sam Fender has confirmed that he’s completed his much anticipated second album. The North Shields artist yesterday June 30 posted on Instagram, a series of black and white photos that showed him working on the follow-up to his highly successful debut album ‘Hypersonic Missiles’.
He captioned the picture “Aye, it’s finished, get ready”.
Fender has not yet confirmed the title or release date for his second album, but last year he stated that it is going to be “miles better” than his first record. His latest album will be more “morbid” whilst also being “introspective, and a bit more Americana-y”.
“Lyrically, the first one was more looking outwards, and this one’s very much about myself and North Shields and about my friends and family, it’s very much about home.”
Fender went on to say “With the first record, it’s mirroring a lot of the stuff that I was listening to when I was a teenager – I was just Springsteen-mad back then, there’s still a bit of Springsteen on the second one, always, but there’s also bits of Joni Mitchell, War on Drugs, Pinegrove and Big Thief. All the American shite!”
The singer/guitarist was also recently spotted in Tyneside filming a music video likely for one of the new songs on his upcoming album where he was lifted above the houses of North Shields.
Earlier this week, he also released a stripped-back piano-led cover of the Metallica track ‘Sad But True’, which will feature on ‘The Metallica Blacklist’ as part of the 30th-anniversary celebration of ‘The Black Album’.
