Description

Theres a line on Honey, the latest album from Nashville-via-NYC songwriter Samia, about Aspen Grove, a collection of 40,000 trees in the plains of North America, all connected by a single expansive root system. Theres no stronger metaphor for the audience the 25-year- old empathy engine has been generating since she began releasing music seven years ago. Her songs, her fans, her friends: one enormous, interconnected ecosystem.

Honey, comprised of eleven new moments of catharsis, is by and for that organism. Set for release on Grand Jury Music, the album was recorded at North Carolina studio Bettys – owned and operated by Sylvan Essos Nick Sandborn and Amelia Meath, frequent touring partners of Samias. It was produced by Caleb Wright, part of the team that helmed Samias breakthrough 2020 debut The Baby, and a founding member of one of Samias favorite bands, The Happy Children. It features some of her nearest and dearest friends: Christian Lee Hutson, Briston Maroney, Jake Luppen, Raffaella. Its songs were surreptitiously road tested for her devotees while opening for Lucy Dacus, Courtney Barnett, and more.

The end result is what Samia calls simply a real community record.