Samantha Crain’s New Album Out Today

Samantha Crain releases Songs in the Night, her full-length debut on Ramseur Records, today. The album was recorded at Echo Mountain Studios in Ashville, North Carolina with producer Danny Kadar (Grizzly Bear, My Morning Jacket, The Avett Brothers).

DOWNLOAD: Samantha Crain - “Get the Fever Out”

You can purchase the album at Amazon.com or your local record store.

“I will give in to the dark clouds/I will sing with the fog in my throat,” begins Samantha Crain on her debut LP. The line seems half-true. Her voice is gorgeously odd — all fulsome, shape-shifting vowels that do indeed billow like fog. But while her moody country rock is full of dark themes, she rarely gives in to them: Her band plays with jaunty sweetness, shuffling and bouncing through sorghum-sticky melodies. So a song about impending disaster feels like a lovers’ waltz, and the title track saunters into the honky-tonk with an Advent candle and a pocket full of hope, bad vibes be damned.” - Rolling Stone

Let’s just cut to the chase: Songs in The Night by Samantha Crain & The Midnight Shivers is a delightful album. Even those who crinkle their noses at the mere mention of any kind of Americana could very well find this to be the gateway drug into the genre. - I Am The Crime

In these emotional tales of people trying to make sense and order out of their messy lives, the 22-year-old Oklahoman sounds like Björk’s heartland cousin as her voice quavers with barely contained emotion. - Mother Jones

Songs in the Night may suggest the sound of nocturnal rumination, but in truth, it’s as bright and promising as daybreak over the horizon. - Eat Sleep Drink Music

Songs In the Night plays out to wander confidently in the badlands where abrasive, jangly indie rock and smooth, whispery folk meet. - CJAM

Songs in the Night, Crain’s debut full-length with her backing band, the Midnight Shivers, hits stores Tuesday and has already set critics’ tongues wagging, thanks to Crain’s evocative hand as a lyricist and the richly textured soundscapes conjured by her bandmates. - Ft. Worth Star-Telegram

Tracklisting and some live videos after the jump.

1. Rising Sun
2. Songs in the Night
3. Long Division
4. Get the Fever Out
5. Bananafish Revolution
6. Scissor Tales
7. Devils In Boston
8. Bullfight (Change Your Mind)
9. Calm Down
10. You Never Know
11. The Dam Song