The last couple of years? Sam Ryder has been on a journey. Another one.

If the long, decade-straddling slog from wedding singer to open-mics, to TikTok virality to major label, to Eurovision to chart-topping album to Christmas Number One race to Emmy nomination for Ted Lasso song Fought & Lost weren’t crazy enough… Well, the two years since he sold out Hammersmith Apollo have been a different kind of crazy. You can hear as much in the honest, vulnerable, bruised and ultimately life-affirming new songs he's written for his second album, a collection crafted with fresh collaborators across London, LA and Nashville, the latter of which the Music City that Ryder now calls home for half the year.