That whole experience – it did really hurt me," he says. "I was young, I was naïve. But I’ve already been through that journey of anger and hate."

Michael Stafford, Leonard Hubbard, Jimmy Gray, Raphael Soadig, Tariq Trotter, Ahmir Thompson, Vic Brown & Tarik L Collins Top 40 Official UK Singles Archive". Official Charts Company. 19 November 2011 . Retrieved 13 February 2012. UK Chart: New Entries, Week Ending: 18 February 2012". Zobbel.de. 12 February 2012 . Retrieved 18 February 2012.Top 40 Official Scottish Singles Archive". Official Charts Company. 19 November 2011 . Retrieved 13 February 2012. The album is called Lonely Are the Brave for a reason, because that’s the headspace I was in at the time," he says. "That sentiment matched where I felt and how I looked at the world. In a beautiful, way most of the songs will always and sadly, some of them are still very relevant."

Irish Albums Chart > Archive > Week Ending: February 9, 2012". GFK. 3 February 2012. Archived from the original on 2 December 2013 . Retrieved 12 February 2012. The album secured the Number Two spot in the UK album charts within the first week of its release, selling over 250,000 copies - but Sabre says that he never reaped the fruits of his creative labour. UK Singles Chart – Week Ending: 22 January 2011 The Official Charts Company, Retrieved 6 February 2011.

Ten years on, Sabre is publicly reasserting control over the music that started everything for him. An incarnation of beautiful tragedy, Sabre’s hypnotic vocal maturity, defined by a honeyed grit expressing a plethora of intimate feelings, established the twenty-one-year-old as an internationally acclaimed voice of contemporary soul. In June 2020, Sabre announced a new EP titled You Know How It Feels, scheduled to be released on 24 July 2020 via FAMM. [17] The EP is promoted by lead single "Signs" released on 26 June. [18] Top 40 Official UK Singles Archive". The Official Charts Company. 6 August 2011 . Retrieved 1 January 2012.

Scottish Albums Chart > Archive > Week Ending: February 18, 2012". Official Charts Company. 12 February 2012 . Retrieved 14 February 2012. Sabre isn’t consumed with fierce resentment and total condemnation for the music industry. He doesn’t wholly renounce creative commodification as a demonic capitalist scheme to savagely exploit creatives, chewing them up and spitting them out like some sort of hellish beast. On 24 July 2014, Sabre released a video for the remix from "Emotion (Ain't Nobody)", featuring Chip, Devlin and George the Poet.

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Lonely Are The Brave: 2cd: Bonus Disc: Hmv.com Exclusive (2012): CD: hmv.com". HMV Group. 6 February 2012. Archived from the original on 4 February 2012. Dawson, Brit (25 November 2019). "Jeremy Corbyn, Lily Allen, and M.I.A. launch Labour's Arts for All policy". Dazed . Retrieved 27 November 2019. Such projects do, however, throw up a conundrum: can the essence of that recording – all of the uniquely charming ingredients that comprise a debut album, from naivety to enthusiasm to rawness – really be recaptured, a whole decade on? In this case, the answer is yes – mostly. Stafford was still just 22 when it was released; now, at 32, he can arguably inhabit world-weary songs like Cold Game, Open My Eyes and I Used to Have It All with a hard-won authenticity.