The enthusiastically brand-new On The Bone Records have picked up SAMSA at an auspicious point in the band's steady rise through maturity to something pretty close to perfection. Oli Deakin's deft talent for a sticky tune sings out on both sides of this single. It is very very good.
The first 16 bars of "To Conquer" do everything that makes electric guitar and bass so utterly seductive. No repeats, no gaps, just a shifting rise to a sudden outburst of passion and noise and the whole song kicks off. Fiercely intelligent stuff. Deakin's voice has become a mark of excellence on the Leeds scene. SAMSA are one of the two or three genuine blue chip talents among the young bands that have been part of the City's current resurgence to have avoided national attention.
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One good song is enough to make a single. SAMSA have as many as you want, and “Another Night” is another cracker. Simple, faultless, seductive. It's heavy with melancholy and rich in melody. It broods like a Cumbrian fell, and stays a long day's trudge away from anything like sentimental whimpering. The mix is invisibly excellent, right down to the mournful church-like organ part of the closing bars. The sound is vintage SAMSA. No one else. No labels required.
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