It was released as the albums lead single, and Sam Smiths debut single. This song was originally released in February 2013. And music still plays that role in my life today. Sam later recorded an acoustic version of the song and after a lot of positive feedback, he decided to include the second version on the album rather than the original version. Now in 2014 Smiths’ offers audiences his debut full-length, In The Lonely Hour, an album that Sam personally wrote from the heart shortly after a break-up. Even in the playground, I would take myself off and just sit and listen to songs, and they would give me the courage to walk back into those classrooms. In The L onely Hour starts off with Money on My Mind, a simplistic pop song which is also the most upbeat song as well. I came out when I was 10 years old, and music was my safe space. Other articles where In the Lonely Hour is discussed: Sam Smith: The breakout single from In the Lonely Hour, Stay with Me, a keening falsetto ballad that. When I was a child, I put in my earphones and I became the woman of my dreams a little bit. Sam Smith - In The Lonely Hour: Drowning Shadows Edition Product Details. "If you go into my library of music, I only listen to women. "I feel like my voice is genderless, and I’ve trained it to be that way," Sam said. They also expanded on the role of music in their life now, and how it's deeply entwined with their identity and has been a source of solace in the past. I’ve realized now that people weren’t understanding me." I remember releasing the album thinking that it would be heard in that way - that it was a queer record - but it wasn’t taken like that. "I was singing songs about a married man I’d fallen in love with, and we did not kiss, nothing happened between us, but I was so in love with him, and I was tortured. I look back on those videos of me when I was 20, and I see a feminine energy," they said. I’m in a suit and in that suit, I was channeling Judy Garland. The album includes the hit singles 'Money on My Mind' and 'Stay with Me', both of which were number one in the UK the latter becoming a hit. In the United States, it was released on 17 June 2014. It was released in the United Kingdom on. "I had that with my first album, In the Lonely Hour. 15 off sitewide (excluding sale items, exclusives, and select items). In the Lonely Hour is the debut studio album by British singer Sam Smith.