Album Review: Sam Fischer Is Doing His “Homework” About Life
The reason we love artists like Ed Sheeran or Sam Smith is not just because they have incredible, distinct voices. It is because they sing to our worst fear: invisibility. Whether it is in love or life, we fear somebody not seeing us or, at least, not seeing all we have done and could be. We dream of lovers, careers, and versions of ourselves that are full and accomplished, while knowing that that “version” of is probably unrealistic and never going to exist. Thus, I know Sam Fischer’s “Homework” was right on time with the times in singing to feeling eternally unseen.
In these pandemic times, I know A LOT of fellow youth saying, “I worked so hard and things didn’t get better” or “Will like always be a fight to survive and exist? When do you live?” Before, a nice drink and laugh with friends was the equivalent to throwing a safety vest to a person drowning overboard. With the loss of our little ease and distractions, people are confronting just how hard their life has been for awhile and how much harder it will get, which is why Sam’s music is perfect for that confrontation. It is catchy enough to want to be repeated, but insightful enough to feel cathartic.
Sam Fischer – The Usual (Official Video)
Like I said, Fischer has a voice as distinctly textured as fellow crooners like Sheeran and Smith. Yet, again, his marker as a lyricist; a man that knows how to paint a space with the colors of feelings. From “Everybody’s Got Somebody” to “The Usual,” he hues the frustrated mundane and inner brilliance that people carry but feel goes untapped. Invisibility runs through the album as his mild, but constant enemy; always popping up to make sure that how magical he is and life can be never becomes a reality that can be, i.e. “I Got To Live” and “People I Don’t Know. ”
Sam Fischer – This City (Official Video)
Folksy in his Pop approach, it may not seem like the best time for Sam Fischer to start his music journey, i.e living in COVID-WORLD, but it is the best time. As people become moody in what they listen to or even if they listen, as streaming has gone down, what I have noticed is that people are either going for classic tunes or retro-sounding artists or plucking the few gems, like Sam Fischer, to sing to them how much they wish they weren’t them. Sure, that may seem sad, but, in music, it is bliss. Sam Fischer’s Homework comes August 28.
