Let's Say for Instance

Lead single "Family" was released on 15 September 2021, followed by the Jaykae duet "Look What You've Done" the next month, and "Brighter Days" in January 2022. The album was announced on 15 February 2022. Sandé will promote the album on the Brighter Days Tour, which will visit the UK and Europe across May and June 2022. Fiona Shepherd of The Scotsman rated the album three out of five stars and wrote that "Sandé may talk about soul-baring through her songs but there is an opaqueness to the off-the-peg inspirational messages in her lyrics which allows the listener to project their own experiences into her middle-of-the-road songs". Shepherd felt the track "Brighter Days" sounds like "Dolly Parton in gospel robes" and called "Look in Your Eyes" a "tasteful, mid-paced reverie" with "old school Terry Lewis/Jimmy Jam-style soul funk". Reviewing the album for musicOMH, Martyn Young opined that it "feels like an album perfectly designed for the playlist age even if as a whole work it could do with paring down". He also called it "a record that highlights a gifted songwriter and producer doing what they love and being gently experimental with it", remarking that Sandé is "free from the expectations and pressures of cultural ubiquity", thus she "can carry on doing what she's very good at".