Samantha Crain's 'A Small Death' LP out today to critical acclaim including NYT, Uncut, MOJO, American Songwriter & more...

SAMANTHA CRAIN’S

A SMALL DEATH OUT NOW
TO CRITICAL ACCLAIM

OUT VIA RAMSEUR RECORDS/THIRTY TIGERS + REAL KIND RECORDS/COMMUNION RECORDS

Photo credit: Dylan Johnson

July 17, 2020—Choctaw-American musician and songwriter Samantha Crain’s new album,
A Small Death, is out today via Ramseur Records/Thirty Tigers and Real Kind Records/Communion. The album marks the first release and artist signing for Real Kind Records, a new label founded by UK-based artist Lucy Rose. Stream/purchase A Small Death HERE and watch/share the live video for new album track “High Horse” HERE.

Praise for the album continues to pour in:

“Her dense arrangements — layered with dainty piano melodies, horns, tape loops, the works — achieve a cozy lushness, as if she were spinning a protective cocoon in which to retreat from the traumas that populate her songs.”
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“[of ‘An Echo’] The deliberate, mournful song evokes all the feelings about
complicated relationships that we sometimes push way down.”
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“…evocative imagery and impassioned, hushed vocals”

★★★★
“Crain has always been good, but on ‘A Small Death’ she’s genuinely great”

★★★★

“A stirring comeback”

“Crain’s striking vocals wrap around her indie folk/rockers with requisite sensitivity and intensity”

"her powerful vocals and eclectic sounds have continued to defy expectations”

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“Samantha Crain is one of the most talented, genuinely inspired artists I've ever come across and to work with her is truly an honor,” Rose says of signing and working with Crain, “[A Small Death is] such a profound and intelligent album, musically and lyrically. She’s poured every inch of herself into her music, into these songs.” Read an interview with Rose and Crain in the New Statesman HERE.

The new record finds the Oklahoma-based artist confronting decades of grief, trauma and an incapacitating physical pain which left the singer home in bed and barely able to perform or play an instrument. “I didn’t completely die, but I feel like I died a little bit and that allowed me this new beginning,” Crain explains. “What I was trying to capture with this record, really, was a sense of reconstruction.” A Small Death is the sixth studio LP from Crain, following the release of 2017’s You Had Me At Goodbye. She won two NAMMYs (Native American Music Awards) in 2009, the Indigenous Music Award for Best Rock Album in 2019, and has toured with a range of artists including The Avett Brothers, Neutral Milk Hotel, Brandi Carlile, The Mountain Goats, Josh Ritter, First Aid Kit, Deer Tick and more.