Seventeen Going Under

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Seventeen Going Under
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Studio album by
Sam Fender
Released8 October 2021
RecordedDecember 2020 – February 2021
Studio Grouse Lodge, Ireland
Genre
Length45:17
Label Polydor
Producer Bramwell Bronte
Sam Fender chronology
Hypersonic Missiles
(2019)		Seventeen Going Under
(2021)
Singles from Seventeen Going Under
  1. "Seventeen Going Under"
    Released: 7 July 2021 [6]
  2. "Get You Down"
    Released: 8 September 2021 [7]
  3. "Spit of You"
    Released: 27 September 2021
  4. "Long Way Off"
    Released: 8 October 2021
  5. "The Dying Light"
    Released: 14 December 2021
  6. "Getting Started"
    Released: 17 April 2022
  7. "Alright"
    Released: 15 July 2022
  8. "Wild Grey Ocean"
    Released: 25 October 2022
  9. "Little Bull Of Blithe"
    Released: 9 December 2022

Seventeen Going Under is the second studio album by English musician Sam Fender. The album was released on 8 October 2021 through Polydor Records. The album explores Fender's upbringing and how it has impacted who he is today, exploring both his outward nihilism as well as his internal self-examination. Three singles were released ahead of the album: the title track, "Get You Down" and "Spit of You".

Contents

The album received universal acclaim from music critics and was also a commercial success becoming Fender's second number one album in the UK Albums Chart and Scottish albums chart. It also peaked at number 4 in the Irish albums chart. NME named Seventeen Going Under the best album of 2021, topping their year-end list, and was named the best indie rock album of 2021 by PopMatters . The album also received a nomination at the 42nd Brit Awards in the British Album of the Year category [8] and won the awards for Best Album by a UK Artist and Best Album in the World at the 2022 NME Awards. [9] The album was nominated for the 2022 Mercury Prize. [10]

Background

On 7 July 2021, Fender announced his second album, Seventeen Going Under and released the title track as the lead single. [11] The single focuses on the time Fender was seventeen and struggling to help his mother financially. [12] Alongside this, Fender announced the tracklist of his then-forthcoming album and described it as "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". [11]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 83/100 [13]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [14]
Clash 8/10 [15]
The Daily Telegraph Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [16]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [1]
The Guitar Magazine Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [17]
The Independent Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [18]
The Line of Best Fit 8/10 [19]
NME Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [20]
Pitchfork 6.6/10 [21]
PopMatters 9/10 [22]

On review aggregator Metacritic, the album has a score of 83 out of 100 based on nine critics' reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". [23] The Guardian writer Alexis Petridis gave the album five out of five stars and named it his album of the week, calling it "urgent, incisive and brave when it would have been easier for Fender to deck out his festival-ready, TikTok-able melodies with something notably blander and less pointed" and "really powerful". [24] Roisin O'Connor of The Independent felt that Fender had refined both "his songwriting and his sound" from his debut, calling the first six songs "far stronger" lyrically than the rest of the album, and summarised Fender as celebrating surviving the "politicised, polarised and [...] permanent state of anxiety" that the world is in. [25]

Journalist Ewan Gleadow, writing for Spark Sunderland, praised the album, calling it "An intense and passionate showcase of emotions" that provided an "understanding of growing up and out of past behaviours." [26] In Tribune magazine, academic and author Alex Niven wrote, “If there is a better, more painful, more condensed summary of the callousness of British neoliberalism in the times we have all recently lived through, I’m not aware of it." [27]

Year-end lists

Critics' rankings for Seventeen Going Under
PublicationAccoladeRankRef.
Gaffa The 10 best albums of the year
4
[5]
The Guardian The 50 best albums of 2021
11
The Independent The 40 best albums of 2021
9
NME The 50 best albums of 2021
1
PopMatters The 15 Best Indie Rock Albums of 2021
1
The 75 Best Albums of 2021
3

Track listing

All tracks are written by Sam Fender.

Standard edition

  1. "Seventeen Going Under" – 4:57
  2. "Getting Started" – 3:09
  3. "Aye" – 3:06
  4. "Get You Down" – 4:23
  5. "Long Way Off" – 3:49
  6. "Spit of You" – 4:33
  7. "Last to Make It Home" – 5:21
  8. "The Leveller" – 4:01
  9. "Mantra" – 4:16
  10. "Paradigms" – 3:45
  11. "The Dying Light" – 3:57

Deluxe edition bonus tracks

  2. "Better of Me" – 3:48
  3. "Pretending That You're Dead" – 2:58
  4. "Angel in Lothian" – 4:11
  5. "Good Company" (live) – 4:46
  6. "Poltergeists" – 2:31

Live deluxe edition bonus tracks

  2. "Howdon Aldi Death Queue" – 1:58
  3. "The Kitchen" (live) – 3:40
  4. "Alright" – 4:24
  5. "Wild Grey Ocean" – 3:54
  6. "Little Bull of Blithe" – 2:10

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI) [46] Platinum300,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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