Sam Smith

Sam Smith is gearing up to release his fourth studio album. Image via Getty Images. Photographer: Kevin Winter

Sam Smith takes ‘creative shift’ ahead of fourth studio album [watch]

Studio album loading: Grammy award-winning singer Sam Smith has written more than 50 new songs exploring different genres.

Sam Smith

Sam Smith is gearing up to release his fourth studio album. Image via Getty Images. Photographer: Kevin Winter

Since the release of their 2020 album Love Goes, English singer-songwriter Sam Smith has been out of the spotlight. The Grammy award-winning singer, who identifies as non-binary and used they/them pronouns, says they have been through a creative shift over the last few years and is ready to release their fourth studio album.

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SAM SMITH’S ‘LOVE GOES’

Love Goes, released in October 2020, was Sam Smith’s third studio album. The album followed the 29-year-old singer’s powerful debut, In The Lonely Hour and their chart-topping second album, The Thrill of It All

Love Goes was unlike Smith’s first two albums and included heartfelt piano ballads and pop tunes like their collaboration with American popstar Normani, Dancing with a Stranger

In a 2019 interview with American radio presenter Zach Sang, Smith said: “I feel like I have recently shown a side of me which I normally keep to myself or for my family and friends.”

“I showed everyone it and everyone loved it. It’s almost given me permission to kinda do what I’ve always dreamed of doing but I was always scared to do, which is pop music.”

WATCH SMITH’S ‘DANCING WITH A STRANGER’ MUSIC VIDEO HERE

SAM SMITH’S CREATIVE SHIFT 

Taking to their website on Sunday 20 March, Sam Smith shared that they’ve been busy working on new music. “I’ve been having wonderful emotional journeys,” added Smith. 

The Stay with Me hitmaker added that they’ve been through a creative shift over the last few years. 

“I have written 100’s of songs and taken my creativity to new levels. Exploring different genres and pushing myself in any way possible. I’ve loved it and it is my aim to make sure you hear that love and honesty in the music,” wrote Smith. 

“It’s not long now. And as I’m starting to prepare for my musical child to be released into the world, I want to first of all thank my day ones and I want you to know how much I value your love.” 

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FANS CANT WAIT! 

Sam Smith’s fans have taken to Twitter to share their excitement about the star singer’s upcoming music. One tweep wrote: “The fact that Sam Smith experimented with their new music, this is their experimental era!!”

“I can’t wait to listen to the new music you’ve been working on for us,” wrote another tweep.