Stream: Sam Valdez, ‘Farther Away’

Kevin Bronson on April 23rd, 2018

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Singer-songwriter Sam Valdez arrived in L.A. from her native Las Vegas with a handful of alluring folk songs, narrated in her sultry, haunting voice. The difference between folk (or folk-noir) and dream-pop, though, is often just another guitar, a layer of atmospherics and some reverb, as her soft shoegazer of a new single, “Farther Away,” suggests. All very Mazzy Star. A classically trained violinist who segued to guitar a couple of years ago, Valdez has been signed to Nevado Records, which will release her EP this summer. “The whole EP was written during a period of change,” the songwriter explains, “and ‘Farther Away’ deals with the feeling of becoming someone you don’t want to be.”

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