Samantha Crain new video "Malachi, Goodbye" out now, from forthcoming EP 'I Guess We Live Here Now'

CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED
CHOCTAW-AMERICAN ARTIST
SAMANTHA CRAIN DEBUTS
“MALACHI, GOODBYE” VIDEO

FROM FORTHCOMING EP
I GUESS WE LIVE HERE NOW OUT APRIL 9

#25 on NPR’s The Best Albums of 2020 List READ HERE “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.” READ HERE Best Country Songs This Week for “Bloomsday” READ HERE

Photo credit: Dylan Johnson

March 22, 2021—Critically acclaimed Choctaw-American musician and songwriter Samantha Crain is debuting the track “Malachi, Goodbye” alongside a new video; watch/share it HERE.

“This song is really just about that moment of clarity when you realize that a relationship has run its course and the feeling of alleviation at having finally arrived at some ending place in your own mind,” Crain explains.

EP artwork

She continues, “More recently, when I've been recording, I try to think of a scene or setting (like a movie) that the song is beginning to sit naturally into…this video is a recreation of the scene I was playing out in my mind while we were finishing up the recording of the song. Of course, the scene in my mind was in South London and this video was shot in a parking lot near my house in Oklahoma.”

The track is from her forthcoming EP, I Guess We Live Here Now, out April 9 via Real Kind Records/Communion.

For the EP, Crain drew inspiration from her Norman, OK neighborhood through the idea of “vacationing in your own backyard,” explaining how the pandemic found her re-discovering the beauty of her hometown. In celebration of the EP Crain is giving away a prize of locally sourced Oklahoma goods to a selected winner; register via her website HERE.

Crain is currently nominated for the Artist of the Year at the 2021 International Folk Music Awards. Her latest LP, A Small Death, was released last year to critical acclaim from NPR Music, The New York Times, Uncut Magazine, MOJO and more. The album marked the first release and artist signing for Real Kind Records, a new label founded by UK-based artist Lucy Rose.

Praise for Crain and A Small Death:

“[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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A Small Death found 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.