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Here's a lovely singer-songwriter who's found a home at Ramseur Records (The Avett Brothers, The Everybodyfields). Choctaw Indian Samantha Crain hails from Shawnee, OK and creates rural folk that's as informed by Radiohead as it is by Bob Dylan. Backed by a band dubbed the Midnight Shivers on her EP entitled The Confiscation: A Musica Novella, the 22-year old Crain exhibits a throaty yet Thom Yorke-esque melody on the gorgeous "Beloved, We Have Expired" while she's accompanied by acoustic guitar and droning electric guitar. As the EP's title suggests, Crain's material has a very literal feel and is just as grounded in the works of Flannery O'Connor as it is in any musical contemporary. Take the album opener "The River," for instance. Musically, the song is a cheerful arrangement of harmonicas and driving percussion, but the lyrics tells the story of a preacher who drowns the people he baptizes. The Confiscation thrives in this sort of duality. It touches on both the light and darkness. It is in tune with both overwhelming beauty and the ugliness sometimes festering just underneath the surface. -- Capt. Obvious
11.12.2008
Samantha Crain & The Midnight Shivers
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