The deluxe version of the album will be out on December 5.

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This comes after the album won the 2025 Mercury Prize.

Earlier this year, Sam Fender released the album with a collection of 11 songs including “People Watching”, “Rein Me In”, and “Arm’s Length,”

His latest song, ‘Talk to You’ featuring Elton John will be included on the deluxe version coming out later this year.

Including the Elton John collaboration, the deluxe version will include eight additional tracks: three new, previously unheard songs, and tracks from Sam’s Record Store Day exclusive EP ‘Me and The Dog‘.

‘People Watching’ has been praised for its honesty, heart, and ambition, being described as “cohesive, bold, and deeply moving.” when he won the Mercury Prize for it.

He told the crowd it felt “surreal and beautiful” to accept the prize in his home region, in front of local fans and his family.

Before the announcement of the deluxe version of the album, there was a countdown on his website which fans speculated could have been counting down until the deluxe album is released.

When talking about the song ‘Talk To You‘, Sam Fender said, “Talk to you was written during the People Watching sessions at British Grove – It’s a song about the end of a long relationship – about the regret, the mistakes and the lessons that come with it.”

“It’s that feeling of losing your best friend, and coming to terms with that. I was playing around with the riff and thought what I need is a really good pianist and then hmmm, I wonder who I can call? And of course, who better than Elton John.”

Elton John also shared his thoughts on the collaboration, saying: “Sam was writing and recording in a studio in West London, and called to say he’d written a song with a piano riff that he thought would sound great with me playing it. I couldn’t resist, and it was so much fun playing it for him.”

“I truly love Sam. He’s been a friend for many, many years and it’s incredible to see him grow into being a truly world class artist.”

The deluxe version of album will include songs which Sam said, “weren’t included in the line up of the first record but deserved to be out there.”

Fans can pre-order and pre-save the deluxe album here.

The additional tracklisting for ‘People Watching Deluxe‘ is:

‘I’m Always On Stage’

‘Talk To You (feat. Elton John)’

‘Fortuna’s Wheel’

‘Rein Me In (with Olivia Dean)’

‘Me and The Dog’

‘Tyrants’

‘The Treadmill’

‘Empty Spaces’

]]> https://www.mxdwn.co.uk/news/sam-fender-announces-deluxe-edition-of-his-album/feed/ 0 https://www.mxdwn.co.uk/news/bullet-for-my-valentine-announce-deluxe-edition-of-2021-self-titled-album-release-new-track-omens/ https://www.mxdwn.co.uk/news/bullet-for-my-valentine-announce-deluxe-edition-of-2021-self-titled-album-release-new-track-omens/#comments Sun, 10 Apr 2022 16:37:10 +0000 http://www.mxdwn.co.uk/?p=54761 Welsh rock/metalcore outfit Bullet For My Valentine have confirmed that they will be releasing a deluxe edition of their 2021self-titled album and have also shared a new track entitled “Omen”. You can listen to the new track on streaming services, or at the YouTube link below. You can also pre-order the forthcoming deluxe record here.

The expanded edition of Bullet For My Valentine’s seventh full-length album will feature the original ten tracks with the addition of four new ones, and a B-side song entitled ‘Stitches” which was originally only available on the Japanese edition of the album. As for physical media, the album will see a release on CD, cassette, and four differently coloured vinyl variants.

Newly revealed tune “Omen” is a straightforward, relentless metalcore tune, featuring a high dosage of distorted twelfth-fret riffing and screamed vocals from vocalist Tuck. The song has been received warmly by fans thus far, as evidenced by the comments section of the lyric video above.

The record was originally released on July 8^th, 2022, and received generally favourable reviews from critics, with Kerrang! awarding the album a 4/5 and saying: “…with the pummelling rhythms more than playing their parts and Matt Tuck never sounding better. This is Bullet firing on all cylinders and it sounds absolutely immense.”

Singer and guitarist Matt Tuck spoke to NME last year regarding the writing process of the album, stating: “The writing process for the new record was relentless. Having that creative flow is something you crave when writing a song, let alone writing an album and we couldn’t stop. The quality of the songwriting is phenomenal on this record, they’re brave, they’re fierce, they’re confident. Everything just fell into place. It feels like the start of something very special…they’re different and unique. I want them to see the light of day because they’re heavy, they’re interesting and they push boundaries.”

Recently, Bullet For My Valentine were announced as one of the acts performing at Bring Me the Horizon’s upcoming four day festival in Malta, which will take place from May 26^th to May 30^th, and will feature sets from other key players in the metalcore scene such as Motionless In White, Spiritbox and Beartooth, as well as alt-rockers PVRIS and London punk rockers Nova Twins. The festival will allegedly play host to club nights, pool parties and boat parties. You can read more about the forthcoming event here.