
Adam Granduciel on working with Sam Fender: "I didn’t realise how much of a musical savant he was"
Adam Granduciel of The War on Drugs recently sat with Guitar.com to discuss working with Sam Fender.
Last month, Sam Fender returned with news of his forthcoming third studio album, which he produced the album 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.
People Watching follows Seventeen Going Under, which was released in 2021, after the success of his 2019 debut album, Hypersonic Missiles.
📄 “I fell in love with him. He’s a savant. Which I wasn’t really prepared for. I didn’t realise how much of a musical savant he was.”
— Sam Fender Daily (@dailyfender) December 13, 2024
- Adam Granducie of The War On Drugs talks about his collaboration with Sam Fender and the boys.https://t.co/VHikbX5dzj
Speaking about working with Sam Fender, Granduciel said: “Sam and the boys came out in March for about five weeks. We worked on some stuff they’d already started, then we worked on some more stuff from the ground up. It was awesome. I’d never met Sam, but we’d communicated once or twice.”
On their musical connection, he added: “I fell in love with him. He’s a savant. Which I wasn’t really prepared for. I didn’t realize how much of a musical savant he was.”
People Watching will be released on 21 February 2025 via Polydor Records, and is available to pre-order now.
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