Sam Valdez Drops Reverb-Dipped Slow Burner New Single

Sam Valdez just premiered via The Fader. Entitled "Clean" the reverb-dipped slow burner glows with warm vocals, melancholy soundscape and a twist on a breakup narrative.

Valdez shares, "Clean is a love song in a way but it's more about being drawn to self destruction. It's about finding comfort in uncertainty and appreciating the darker qualities in someone as well as the good."

Sam Valdez's immersive indie-rock sensibility reflects her childhood growing up at the edge of the Nevada desert, and her formative musical experiences as a child violinist. The mystery, beauty, and haunting quality of desert life has shaped the LA-based artist's sense of dreamy textures, and her flair for abstract but emotive lyrics. Classical music's majesty has informed her imaginative arrangements, and cinematic sense of dynamics.

Sam has melded in an intriguing blend of shoe-gaze, Americana, indie-rock, and pop into a signature aesthetic. Select career highlights thus far include garnering rave reviews in Clash Music, Consequence of Sound, and Earmilk; earning heavy rotation from KCRW for multiple singles; and opening tours for Stella Donnelly, Cayucas, and Giant Rooks.

"I've always tried to write from the most genuine place that I can, but, lately, and with this record, I've been working on sharing more sides of my views and emotions," Sam details.

A feeling of 1960s nostalgic balladry courses through many of thesongs on Sam's debut. She says:" Melancholic, comforting and thought provoking is what I look forin music and what I feel and hope comes across in mine." The album's first single, "Toothache," is a reverb-dipped slow burner glowering with sensual vocals and a twist on a breakup narrative. Here, the feeling is a longing to reconnect with one's sense of self post romantic rupture.