Armed with one of the UK’s most sensational voices, Sam Tompkins, announces his second studio album ARE WE GONNA SING? – out September 4th on Island Records. Beautifully raw, it arrives packed with emotionally-powerful songs of the highest calibre.
The new single ‘CRAWLING OUT MY SKIN’ arrives as one of the album’s most upbeat offerings and embodies everything that Sam’s new chapter is about: forward-facing & positive – leaving space for his world-class songwriting & extremely resonant lyrics to shine. Listen here.
“‘CRAWLING OUT MY SKIN’ came right at the end of an intense writing camp in Norfolk”, Sam explains. “One of us had a laptop and we just decided to make something purely in the garden. Everything was super rough, and the vocals were actually all recorded outside too. At its core, this song is about wishing you appreciated those moments where life is just… fine. This song means a lot to me because it wasn’t a concept I’d had deep in my journal. It was a moment.”
Shaped by a new partnership with producer Humble The Great, the album was born from a fresh approach to songwriting, built around live instrumentation, instinctive collaboration and capturing emotion in its purest form. “It felt like I was making music in a different way – with more live instrumentation and a real jam-led approach,” Sam recalls. “During that process I realised I wanted the entire project to feel alive and honest in the same way.”
From performing alongside Justin Bieber to achieving Platinum certification in the US alongside Gold certifications in Germany and Italy, his rise has been remarkable. Those releases followed breakthrough moments including ‘Lose It All’ – the piano ballad that challenged outdated conversations around masculinity and vulnerability – as well as viral global smash ‘To The Moon’, his collaboration with Jnr Choi that has amassed hundreds of millions of streams worldwide.
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