Sam Fischer isn’t really a household name yet, but ‘This City’ surely rings a bell. The song, released in 2020, gave Sam’s career a huge boost. Having received close to 600 million Spotify streams, ‘This City’ was to be heard everywhere and enabled Sam to collaborate with artists like Demi Lovato and Meghan Trainor. Now, three years later, it is finally time for Sam’s long awaited debut album I Love You, Please Don’t Hate Me.
The 15 songs strong album was released this month and is a collection of Sam Fischer’s hard work over the past years. If you know anything about his music, you should be familiar with around half of the songs on the album already. However, that still leaves us with a couple of new songs to explore! Starting off with the first song on the album, the title track ‘I Love You, Please Don’t Hate Me’, an uptempo piano ballad discovering themes like anxiety in a relationship and the feeling that you are a burden to the other person. This theme is a recurring one, appearing in songs like ‘Hard To Love’, ‘Watching My World Fall Apart’, which focuses on a breakup, and ‘Somebody Cares’.
Sam Fischer’s songs are recognisable in the sense that his heartfelt lyrics are very relatable. ‘Carry It Well’ is a perfect example for anyone who has ever been in a rough patch in life. Opposite songs such as ‘Afterglow’ (read our song review here), ‘Hopeless Romantic’, and ‘Alright’ show a different, more positive view combined with pop instrumentals. This shows that Sam Fischer is not only extremely capable of writing the most relatable lyrics and supporting them with intriguing piano instrumentals, but also of creating songs that are about acceptance and end on a positive note. And above all, songs that we can dance to!
We surely cannot forget to mention Sam’s incredible vocals that make every song sound easy to sing, which – spoiler alert – they’re not! Sam has a very comfortable voice to listen to and is able to hit you in the right spot this way. Combined with his relatable lyrics, it is easy to connect to his songs and have them mirror your own life too. His wide range makes the highest notes sound good and helps him in creating the broad catalogue of songs that he has published with his debut album. Definitely worth a listen!
Written by: Marloes Joosen
Edited by: Nèri Cliteur
