Samantha Marie's Debut Album is an Ode to Summer
Today, Samantha is doing just that. She is pursuing her passion for music and making a name for herself as a talented singer and songwriter. Her vocal range is intense and can both shock and console listeners. Despite the challenges she has faced in her life, Samantha's perseverance and dedication to her craft are an inspiration to others who may be struggling.
Her debut EP, Running In Place, showcased her refined and intricate song structures that blend together elements of various genres, resulting in a sound that is entirely her own. The EP was a promising introduction to Samantha's music, and fans eagerly anticipated what would come next.
Now, the ambitious young musician strikes out with an exquisite conceptual LP titled Summers, The album showcases Samantha's exceptional vocal range and songwriting skills combining mellow acoustics, ethereal melodies, indie rock rhythms and surprisingly heavy percussion lines that provocatively rile your ears up.
“Summer is that but a feeling, it’s never really there right in front of you, but you know It when you feel it, even in the winter"
Samantha Marie Saglibene's album Summers is an introspective exploration of life's complexities and the ever-changing nature of the world we inhabit. Her lyrics delve into the paradoxical coexistence of joy and heartbreak, as well as the intricate relationship between hope and loss. The album is crafted with a focus on the season of summer, with each song interwoven with parallel stories to create a cohesive unit. Samantha carefully curated the order of the songs to convey the fluidity and constant evolution of life.
“I wrote Summers, as I was trying to understand the world in a way that made sense, why the time seemed to go by so fast, why I could feel so much joy, and so much heartbreak at the same time, and why hope and loss intertwine together so well. I crafted the album, with my writing, for the songs to be connected to each other through parallel stories within the songs, lyricism that denotes the season of Summer, and the genre changes to represent how we are constantly changing.”
Complex and borderline celebratory, Summers has feelgood melodies and live-wire riffs aplenty, but they’re all seasoned with meaningful emotional evocations such as with “Push Me out” and “Strawberry Sensation”. Whenever a moodier mood strikes, Samantha flows into folk-hued ballardry and then drifts into nearly abstract, dream-pop expanses that feel an ode to summer doldrums. All of these different feelings ebb and flow like the tide, and they allow us to enjoy a great diversity within a single stunning piece of work distributed deliberately and lovingly across 13 songs and an interlude.
With summer being a time of immense change in Samantha's life, she wanted to explore the emotions that come with it, including friendships, falling in love, loss, and the hope of starting over. The album features a blend of gentle acoustics and indie rock rhythms that reflect Samantha's unique sound.
For Samantha, summer is more than just a season - it's a feeling that can be experienced at any time of the year. It's a time of transformation and growth, where we may have to close one door to open another. All in all, Summers is a beautiful introspective album that speaks to the universal human experience of change and growth and the curve balls that life throws at us.
