It’s an interesting play to release a live album just as you’re emerging as an artist of arena rock stature. But that’s exactly what Sam Fender has done with “Live From Finsbury Park.”

Turns out it’s not a bad idea.

That’s because the album, recorded in July at an outdoor concert in London, will only whet the appetite of worldwide audiences who have discovered Fender’s angsty, substantial rock and roll but haven’t seen him live. He released it on vinyl, in tandem with a deluxe CD edition of his breakthrough 2021 release, “Seventeen Going Under,” which includes two solid new cuts.

Tickets will be harder to come by now.

Fender hails from a working-class seaside town in northeast England, and his music has been compared to Bruce Springsteen. That’s fair. He has acknowledged in interviews that Springsteen is his favorite artist, even as he says the comparisons don’t do him any favors.