Let's Say for Instance is the fourth studio album by Scottish singer Emeli Sandé, released on 6 May 2022 through Chrysalis Records. It is Sandé's first release with Chrysalis, and first album on an independent record label. The album was preceded by the release of the singles "Family", "Look What You've Done" (with Jaykae) and "Brighter Days". Sandé will tour the UK and Europe in support of the album from May 2022.
Background and musical style
Sandé explained that she "felt free to express self more naturally both lyrically and musically in this album and wish is that it will be an uplifting experience for each listener and that they will get to know on a much deeper level". Upon release in September 2021, lead single "Family" was called a departure from Sandé's previous soul sound "more towards pop", while a press release accompanying the album announcement claimed Sandé "explor new sonic territory through shades of classical, disco, nostalgic R&B".
Promotion
Lead single "Family" was released on 15 September 2021, followed by the Jaykae duet "Look What You've Done" the next month, and "Brighter Days" in January 2022. The album was announced on 15 February 2022. Sandé will promote the album on the Brighter Days Tour, which will visit the UK and Europe across May and June 2022.
Fiona Shepherd of The Scotsman rated the album three out of five stars and wrote that "Sandé may talk about soul-baring through her songs but there is an opaqueness to the off-the-peg inspirational messages in her lyrics which allows the listener to project their own experiences into her middle-of-the-road songs". Shepherd felt the track "Brighter Days" sounds like "Dolly Parton in gospel robes" and called "Look in Your Eyes" a "tasteful, mid-paced reverie" with "old school Terry Lewis/Jimmy Jam-style soul funk". Reviewing the album for musicOMH, Martyn Young opined that it "feels like an album perfectly designed for the playlist age even if as a whole work it could do with paring down". He also called it "a record that highlights a gifted songwriter and producer doing what they love and being gently experimental with it", remarking that Sandé is "free from the expectations and pressures of cultural ubiquity", thus she "can carry on doing what she's very good at".Let's Say for Instance is the fourth studio album by Scottish singer Emeli Sandé, released on 6 May 2022 through Chrysalis Records. It is Sandé's first release with Chrysalis, and first album on an independent record label. The album was preceded by the release of the singles "Family", "Look What You've Done" (with Jaykae) and "Brighter Days". Sandé will tour the UK and Europe in support of the album from May 2022.
Background and musical style
Sandé explained that she "felt free to express self more naturally both lyrically and musically in this album and wish is that it will be an uplifting experience for each listener and that they will get to know on a much deeper level". Upon release in September 2021, lead single "Family" was called a departure from Sandé's previous soul sound "more towards pop", while a press release accompanying the album announcement claimed Sandé "explor new sonic territory through shades of classical, disco, nostalgic R&B".
Promotion
Lead single "Family" was released on 15 September 2021, followed by the Jaykae duet "Look What You've Done" the next month, and "Brighter Days" in January 2022. The album was announced on 15 February 2022. Sandé will promote the album on the Brighter Days Tour, which will visit the UK and Europe across May and June 2022.
Fiona Shepherd of The Scotsman rated the album three out of five stars and wrote that "Sandé may talk about soul-baring through her songs but there is an opaqueness to the off-the-peg inspirational messages in her lyrics which allows the listener to project their own experiences into her middle-of-the-road songs". Shepherd felt the track "Brighter Days" sounds like "Dolly Parton in gospel robes" and called "Look in Your Eyes" a "tasteful, mid-paced reverie" with "old school Terry Lewis/Jimmy Jam-style soul funk". Reviewing the album for musicOMH, Martyn Young opined that it "feels like an album perfectly designed for the playlist age even if as a whole work it could do with paring down". He also called it "a record that highlights a gifted songwriter and producer doing what they love and being gently experimental with it", remarking that Sandé is "free from the expectations and pressures of cultural ubiquity", thus she "can carry on doing what she's very good at".false2022-11-13 00:59:35Let’s Say for Instance1020222022-05-062022-05-0652Pop112663238303376162481-c593-40bc-9317-66a08be992227cfaac66-62e5-4fcd-af1b-9d3aa8f68e8b1d16e260-2dde-4ed0-90ec-31a9d174e353/media/data/media4/Music/Emeli Sandé/Let’s Say for Instance (2022)/folder.jpgEmeli SandéAlbumArtistEmeli SandéArtistEmeli SandéEmeli SandéAdele Emily Sandé, ( SAN-day; previously Gouraguine; born 10 March 1987), known professionally as Emeli Sandé, is a Scottish singer and songwriter. Born in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, and raised in Alford, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, by an English mother and a Zambian father, Sandé rose to prominence after being a featured artist on the 2009 track "Diamond Rings" by rapper Chipmunk. It was the first top 10 single on the UK Singles Chart for both of them. In 2010, she was featured on "Never Be Your Woman" by the rapper Wiley, which was another top ten hit. In 2012, she received the Brit Awards' Critics' Choice Award.
Sandé released her first solo single "Heaven" in August 2011. She has two number-one singles across the UK and Ireland with "Read All About It" with Professor Green and "Beneath Your Beautiful", a collaboration with Labrinth. Her album Our Version of Events spent ten non-consecutive weeks at number one and became the best-selling album of 2012 in the UK, with over 1 million sales. In 2012, she performed in both the Opening and Closing ceremonies of the London Olympics. In 2013, at the Brit Awards 2013 ceremony, she won two awards: Best British Female Solo Artist, and British Album of the Year.
In 2016, she released her second studio album Long Live the Angels, which debuted at number 2 on the UK album chart. In 2017, she won the Brit Award for Best British Female Solo Artist, becoming her fourth win in total. In 2018, she featured as the singing voice of Thethuthinnang on Watership Down.