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Street lights flickering, a midnight breeze runs cold; Samantha Farrell is standing alone and very content to be doing so, thank you very much. It is perplexing how a record seemingly about never getting what you want could end up being so deeply and soulfully satisfying, yet that is exactly the spacious, noir magic that singer-songwriter Samantha Farrell has wrought with her new collection of songs.
Her first release in three years simmers with a restless, late-night tension supported by a lush soundscape carefully woven by Will Dailey’s unique production and guitar prowess. The inhabitants of these songs are dreamers in a lonely city, haunted by myth and eros, ghosts of lives unlived, alternate dimensions and the supple, cosmic absence of a love that never arrives and never subsides.
In her first single, “At the Edge of the World,” out December 2020, a shadowed pianist runs scales in the dark on top of sparse, sensual rhythms and spacey, psychedelic guitars. Amidst a world of pandemic and upheaval, as fate would have it, this slow burn of creation resulted in the music arriving perfectly on time. It’s an eerily prescient soundtrack made for this strange moment of anxious isolation in our collective experience. It’s a record for the lonely ones; it’s likely for you, too.
“Prodigious and undulating vocals that are delivered with rare, swinging passion.”
- Relix Magazine