Nearly three years since her last album, Oklahoma-born Samantha Crain has announced her new album ‘A Small Death’ set for release on May 1st via Real Kind Records, a newly launched label by singer Lucy Rose who said “Samantha Crain is one of the most talented, genuinely inspired artists I’ve ever come across and to work with her is truly an honour. When it came to setting up the label, I knew that what was most important to be was that the artists needs came first, artist-friendly deals, and at the forefront of what I wanted to achieve was that Samantha enjoyed every moment of releasing this album.
“I have real ambition for Samantha and this album. It’s such a profound and intelligent album, musically and lyrically. I’m so grateful for the braveness she has shown in doing this. It’s a deeply personal album and one that I will continue to listen to and enjoy for all the years to come. I hope many, many more people will too.”
Accompanying the album announcement is a new video for lead single ‘An Echo’. Samatha Crain says:
“‘An Echo’ is is such an important song to me and I feel it intensely every time I play it. I wanted this to be the first song released from the new record because, somehow in just three verses, it documents the grieving of so many years of trauma and this feeling of finally getting to start this new phase of being.
“I had been so unwell that I wasn’t writing and couldn’t ever imagine being able to make another record. So when this song came to me, I knew I had to get better so I could make the record that would cradle this song. The song hits on those relationships in your life that have so many complexities due to time and growth and change and non-communication and Jo (my friend who made the video) and I wanted to bring a visual picture of that feeling to pair with the song.”
In a note to fans she said:
“I’ve been away. Is that what it feels like? Nearly 3 years since my last record was released. I died a little. I got to know myself again from scratch. My hands stopped working. I stayed in bed. I lost people. I gained community. I went to therapy. I took medicine. I exercised. I cried and cried and cried. I wrote sonnets.
“I asked questions. I got in fights. I apologized. I was thoughtful. I was content. I wrote songs. I made a record. I made a record that means more to me than anything I’ve ever made.
“I produced this myself. I took the time I needed. I made this on my own terms with my own vision, my own dreams, my own nightmares, my own revelations. I own this. And now I give it to you… just in case it helps you to own it as well.”
She has also announced a few intimate gigs in US and UK on which she’ll be “bringing some bandmates along for.”
Samantha Crain Dates
4 March – LONDON
15 April – LOS ANGELES, The Love Song Bar
22 April – NEW YORK, Rockwood Music Hall
TICKETS HERE: https://www.samanthacrain.com/tour