sam smith in the lonely hour album release date

So bare does Smith lay his soul, in fact, that by the end of the album I found myself wanting to look away from his heartsick agony out of a basic sense of decency and dignity.Ĭulturally and morally complicating this sweeping sadness is the fact that in the weeks leading up to the album’s release, Smith addressed and confirmed rumors regarding his sexual orientation, telling, “ In the Lonely Hour is about a guy that I fell in love with last year, and he didn’t love me back.

On the other nine, this much-ballyhooed soul singer (whose fragile, plaintive falsetto eerily echoes that of Simply Red frontman Mike Hucknall) autobiographically chronicles his utter relational and personal devastation. Only one song here isn’t about that topic. In this collection of emotionally raw songs about rejection, the 22-year-old Briton makes quite a convincing play for becoming the Patron Saint of Unrequited Love. But it could just have easily been called It’s a Sad, Sad, Sad, Sad World.

Sam Smith’s debut album is titled In the Lonely Hour.

Sam smith in the lonely hour album release date