UK singer/songwriter, Sam Fender has announced, that his debut release, Hypersonic Missiles will drop on August 9, via Interscope Records. The album was written, recorded and produced at Fender’s own self-built warehouse studio in North Shields, UK and recorded alongside long-standing friend and producer, Bramwell Bronte.

After quitting school, Fender found work behind the bar in a local Shields pub (“a drinking town with a fishing problem” he’s joked on more than one occasion). He was discovered by his eventual manager when the pub’s landlord, recognizing him, nudged Sam to go fetch his guitar and play something. Fender, usually castigated for musing on a guitar during work hours, picked it up and belted out two or three songs of his own. The pair have worked with each other ever since.

About his lyrics, Fender says “I don’t have answers only questions”. “Dead Boys” tackles the taboo of male suicide and “Hypersonic Missiles, the album’s title-track, is named for newly developed Russian missile that travels at nine times the speed of sound.

Sam Fender
Hypersonic Missile
Tracklisting

Hypersonic Missiles
The Borders
White Privilege
Dead Boys
You’re Not The Only One
Play God
That Sound
Saturday
Will We Talk In The Morning
Two People
Call Me Lover
Leave Fast
Use (live)

Sam Fender
Tour Dates

April 17 – Badaboum – Paris
April 18 – Doornroosje – Nijmegen
April 20 – Tivoliredenburg – Utrecht
April 22 – Gloria – Koln [SOLD OUT]
April 24 – Columbia Theater – Berlin [SOLD OUT]
April 25 – Technikum – Munchen [SOLD OUT]
April 26 – Papiersaal – Zurich
April 28 – Orangerie – Brussels
April 29 – Melkweg – Amsterdam
May 2 – Ritz – Manchester [SOLD OUT]
May 3 – QMU – Glasgow [SOLD OUT]
May 4 – Live at Leeds
May 6 – Shepherds Bush Empire, London [SOLD OUT]
May 7 – Shepherds Bush Empire, London [SOLD OUT]
May 10 – O2 Academy – Birmingham [SOLD OUT]
May 12 – Lemon Grove – Exeter [SOLD OUT]
May 13 – SWX – Bristol [SOLD OUT]
May 26 – Neighbourhood Weekender, Warrington
June 1 – All Points Festival – London (w/ Mumford & Sons)
June 10 – Pinkpop Festival – Landgraaf
June 13 – Bergenfest – Bergen
June 28 – Glastonbury Festival
July 28 – Down The Rabbit Hole Festival – Nijmegen
July 6 – Barn On The Farm – Highnam
July 11 – Tynemouth Castle, North Shields [SOLD OUT]
July 12 – Hyde Park – London (w/ Bob Dylan + Neil Young)
July 13 – TRNSMT Festival – Glasgow
August 1-4 – Lollapalooza – Chicago, IL
August 16 – Summer Sonic – Tokyo
August 18 – Summer Sonic – Osaka
August 31– Electric Picnic – Laois, Ireland