Samantha Crain - Gumshoe *Pre-Order

Release Date Friday 2nd May 2025
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.

When multiple car wrecks rendered Samantha Crain injured and bed-ridden
for a year and a half -- an experience that was explored within her last fulllength album A Small Death in 2020 -- followed by the pandemic immediately
afterward, the Oklahoman singer-songwriter fnally slowed down
Having lived within something of a nomadic, solitary existence for as long as she can
remember, she's sprinted from city to city on tour while leaving love, consequences
and tough conversations behind for the past two decades. Coming off the road has
given her more time to refect, more time to connect with the people in her life, and
more time to let her curiosity blossom -- as revealing and challenging as it has been.
The experience has been a crash course in humanism, as she continues to question
what it means to be a friend, a partner, a piece of a community. It's explored
throughout the entirety of "Gumshoe" -- her forthcoming seventh studio album and
frst in half a decade, with an apt title that evokes the sense of mystery-solving she's
welcomed these last several years of staying put in Oklahoma.
As a loner for almost her entire life, Samantha's recently come face-to-face with major
life events, social interactions, and consequences that she was never exposed to
before. The questions of being human that offer clarity, as much as they do a fog of
uncertainty with what comes next. How will things play out? Who am I when I'm not
onstage? How will I pay my bills? What am I willing to do for my family?
From helping her partner navigate their struggle with addiction, to working several odd
jobs (a hair salon, a wildcare rescue, a resource center for unhoused people, and a
liquor store doing booze deliveries), to discovering how to love and be loved --
Gumshoe fnds Samantha piecing together the puzzle of how we fnd perspective,
groundedness, responsibility, and coexistence in a world with other people. And while
that puzzle might be unsolvable, it's at least worth the try

Tracks: Dragonfy / Neptune Baby / Dart / Ridin' Out The Storm / Gumshoe / Fool's
Paradise / B-Attitudes / Trap Door / Melatonin / Boilermaker / Old Hallicrafter Radio

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