Album: Sam Ryder – There’s Nothing But Space, Man!
There’s a lot to live up to when delivering your debut album after a year in which you’ve become a glam-pop sensation, but Sam Ryder found a novel way to handle the pressure. He’d already made it. “After this crazy year, we thought it would be wicked to put an album out,” Ryder tells Apple Music. “I looked on my hard drive and there were over 100 songs on there. I thought, ‘Well, there’s an album already here.’ I can only imagine the pressure if we hadn’t had those songs written. It was more like I was curating an album out of the 100-odd songs I had.” There’s Nothing But Space, Man! builds on the bombastic, Queen-style swagger of “SPACE MAN”—the song that catapulted the Essex-born singer-songwriter to fame in the UK after thrilling performances at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin and the Platinum Jubilee—with a collection of tracks that demonstrate there’s much more where “SPACE MAN” came from.