Seventeen Going Under

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 outwards nihilism as well as his internal self-examination. Four singles were released ahead of the album: the title track, "Aye", "Get You Down" and "Spit of You".

For the song, see Seventeen Going Under (song).

Seventeen Going Under
Studio album by
Sam Fender
Released8 October 2021
RecordedDecember 2020 – February 2021
StudioGrouse Lodge, Ireland
GenreIndie rock
Length45:17
LabelPolydor
ProducerBramwell Bronte
Sam Fender chronology
Hypersonic Missiles
(2019)		 Seventeen Going Under
(2021)
Singles from Seventeen Going Under
  1. "Seventeen Going Under"
    Released: 7 July 2021[1]
  2. "Aye"
    Released: 20 August 2021[2]
  3. "Get You Down"
    Released: 8 September 2021[3]
  4. "Spit of You"
    Released: 27 September 2021
  5. "Long Way Off"
    Released: 8 October 2021

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. The album was named the best indie rock album of 2021 by PopMatters.

Critical reception

On review aggregator Metacritic, the album has a score of 83 out of 100 based on nine critics' reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[4] 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".[5] 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.[6]

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic83/100[7]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[8]
Clash8/10[9]
The Guardian[10]
The Guitar Magazine[11]
The Independent[12]
The Line of Best Fit8/10[13]
NME[14]
Pitchfork6.6/10[15]
The Daily Telegraph[16]

Accolades

Year-end lists
Critics' rankings for Seventeen Going Under
Publication Accolade Rank Ref.
The Guardian The 50 best albums of 2021
11
[17]
NME The 50 best albums of 2021
1
[18]
PopMatters The 15 Best Indie Rock Albums of 2021
1
[19]
The 75 Best Albums of 2021
3
[20]

Track listing

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

  1. "Better of Me" – 3:48
  2. "Pretending That You're Dead" – 2:58
  3. "Angel in Lothian" – 4:12
  4. "Good Company" – 4:47
  5. "Poltergeists" – 2:32

Charts
Chart performance for Seventeen Going Under
Chart (2021) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[21] 46
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[22] 56
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[23] 16
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[24] 87
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[25] 27
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[26] 6
Irish Albums (OCC)[27] 4
Scottish Albums (OCC)[28] 1
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[29] 5
UK Albums (OCC)[30] 1

Certifications
Region CertificationCertified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[31] Silver 60,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

References
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  2. Moore, Sam (20 August 2021). "Listen to Sam Fender's thumping new song 'Aye'". NME. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
  3. Peacock, Tim (8 September 2021). "Listen To Sam Fender's Hypnotic New Single, 'Get You Down'". udiscovermusic. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
  4. "Seventeen Going Under by Sam Fender Reviews and Tracks". Metacritic. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
  5. Petridis, Alexis (7 October 2021). "Sam Fender: Seventeen Going Under review – music that punches the air and the gut". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
  6. O'Connor, Roisin (7 October 2021). "Album reviews: Sam Fender – Seventeen Going Under and BadBadNotGood – Talk Memory". The Independent. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
  7. "Seventeen Going Under by Sam Fender Reviews and Tracks". Metacritic. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
  8. Donelson, Marcy. "Seventeen Going Under − Sam Fender". AllMusic. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
  9. Harbron, Lucy. "Sam Fender − Seventeen Going Under". Clash. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
  10. Petridis, Alexis. "Sam Fender: Seventeen Going Under review − music that punches the air and the gut". The Guardian.
  11. Walker, Gary (11 October 2021). "Sam Fender − Seventeen Going Under review: the work of an exceptional young British songwriter". Guitar.com. Archived from the original on 11 December 2021. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
  12. O'Connor, Roisin. "Album reviews: Sam Fender − Seventeen Going Under and BadBadNotGood − Talk Memory". The Independent.
  13. Campbell, Caleb. "Sam Fender eloquently paints a backdrop of the English north-east on Seventeen Going Under". The Line of Best Fit. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
  14. Hunt, El. "Sam Fender − 'Seventeen Going Under' review: a portrait of the artist as a young man". NME. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
  15. Shanfeld, Ethan. "Sam Fender − Seventeen Going Under". Pitchfork. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
  16. McCormick, Neil. "Sam Fender: Seventeen Going Under, review: seductive, thunderous angst from the North's answer to Springsteen". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
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  18. Williams, Jenessa (10 December 2021). "The 50 best albums of 2021". NME. Archived from the original on 10 December 2021. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
  19. Levine, Jeremy; Mason, Adam (6 December 2021). "The 15 Best Indie Rock Albums of 2021". PopMatters. Archived from the original on 10 December 2021. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
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  28. "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
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