Sam Fender Seventeen Going Under

Seventeen Going Under is the highly anticipated follow-up to UK singer-songwriter Sam Fender's breakout record, Hypersonic Missiles, which debuted at No. 1 in the UK. The new album finds the singer looking inwards and reflecting on the trials and tribulations of growing up and misspent youth. The album was both recorded and set in his native North Shields and was produced with his longtime friend Bramwell Bronte. North Shields is the ever-present backdrop for these deeply personal vignettes of a young life, chronicling all the cherished memories, tricky encounters, and events that Sam cannot unsee. While Seventeen Going Under is a more intensely personal record than Hypersonic Missiles, it's lost none of Sam's acute sense of observation and intimacy. "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," shares Fender. The album's anthemic title track swells with chest-thumping, heart-swelling pride.