Nevada-born, Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Sam Valdez writes the sort of breathy, country-tinted shoegaze that can only come from the West Coast.
Her debut EP, 2018's Mirage, was a quietly cinematic throwback to Laurel Canyon rock, but she really leaned into the drama of her voice on "Toothache," released in the spring.
Now she's premiering a new song, "Clean," ahead of an as yet untitled EP due later this year. Sparsely produced and unhurried, "Clean" is a powerfully desolate song on which Valdez picks apart the gloomier corners of a troubled relationship. "'Clean' is a love song in a way but it’s more about being drawn to self-destruction," Valdez wrote in an email to The FADER. "It’s about finding comfort in uncertainty and.
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