Sam Fender shares title track from new album ‘People Watching’
The new single was written in memory of Fender’s late friend and mentor, Annie Orwin
Sam Fender has shared new single ‘People Watching’, the title track from his recently announced third album.
This week (November 13), Fender announced that People Watching will be released on February 21, 2025 via Polydor Records.
The anthemic new single is was written in memory of Fender’s late friend and mentor, Annie Orwin. It sees Fender ruminating on travelling to and from her bedside at a palliative care unit.
You can listen to ‘People Watching’ below.
The third record from the North Shields singer follows on from 2021’s acclaimed Seventeen Going Under, which saw him grace the first ever cover of Rolling Stone UK in the run-up to its release.
Fender produced the record alongside bandmates Dean Thompson and Joe Atkinson over two years, working firstly in London in 2023 with producer Markus Dravs, and then earlier this year in Los Angeles with The War on Drugs’ Adam Granduciel, after they were seen in the studio together.
According to an official release, the record marks Fender’s “next step forward – colourful stories and observations of everyday characters living their everyday, but often extraordinary, lives.”