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SAM FENDER
calls out the establishment
in new track
‘AYE’
New Album
SEVENTEEN GOING UNDER
Out October 8
via DEW PROCESS/ UNIVERSAL MUSIC AUSTRALIA
LISTEN TO SINGLE HERE
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Photo – CHARLOTTE PATMORE
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“Turning his own experiences into art for album number two, Seventeen Going Under is one that is brave, defiant, celebratory, and ultimately inspirational.” – Rolling Stone AUS
“The North Shields singer-songwriter may look cookie-cutter but his gritty, gloriously anthemic songs on toxic masculinity, violence and death are anything but” – The Guardian
“He’s entertaining and endearing, but also one of Britain’s brightest hopes” – Coup de Main
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UK’s Sam Fender has today shared brand-new single ‘Aye’, the second instalment from his forthcoming album, Seventeen Going Under, out October 8 via Dew Process / UMA.
Listen to single ‘AYE’ HERE
‘Aye’ is a thumping, angry and frustrated sigh at the state of the nation. It observes the battleground of left versus right but widens the lens to discover those party lines have become ever more blurred resulting in online aggravation that lacks nuance. The focus then settles on the disparity between the 1% and everybody else, and whilst ‘everybody else’ hurls insults at each other arguing semantics on social media, the 1% watch the money rolling in. It’s one of the only politically driven songs on Seventeen Going Under, and typically well observed. A purposeful rant about purposeless ranting.
Sam explains: “Aye is about the polarity between the left and the right wing, and how that leaves working class people displaced with a lack of political identity, playing into the hands of the 1%. It’s also a rant about my disdain for the greedy tax dodging billionaires of the world.”
‘Aye’ follows Sam’s recent returning single ‘Seventeen Going Under’ in introducing one of the year’s most anticipated albums. It’s a return that looks set to take Sam’s music even further afield than his 2019 number 1 debut album, Hypersonic Missiles.
Whilst Seventeen Going Under is destined to be a more intense and personal record than Hypersonic Missiles, it’s lost none of Sam’s acute sense of observation. It’s a brave record; a defiant record; a celebratory record; and an inspiring one too. Like only truly great songwriters can, Sam turns his own experience into art that speaks to and resonates with all of us. These are simple but stunning songs that fire like an arrow straight through, and straight from the heart.
Speaking about the album, Sam perfectly encapsulates the record as: “This album is a coming-of-age story. It’s about growing up. It’s a celebration of life after hardship, and it’s a celebration of surviving.”
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SEVENTEEN GOING UNDER
TRACK-LISTING:
Seventeen Going Under
Getting’ Started
Aye
Get You Down
Long Way Off
Spit Of You
Last To Make It Home
The Leveller
Mantra
Paradigms
The Dying Light
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LISTEN TO ‘AYE’ SINGLE HERE
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