Samia (samiatheband) Finds Community but Loses Herself on iHoney/i | album review by bigugly
What is honey? It’s oddly challenging to describe the saccharine, gluey substance that humans harvest from bees to sweeten their delicacies, but its inscrutable nature makes it fertile ground for metaphor. To Samia Finnerty, who releases sunny indie rock under her first name, its viscosity is reminiscent of the inebriation: sweet, slow, and maybe a little sticky, causing you to adhere to every person and memory that makes it through the filter.
With disorienting abruptness, Samia shifts gears on “Charm You,” an acoustic indie folk-rock meditation that could serve as an anthem for keeping it real. She changes things up again on “Pink Balloons,” a two-and-a-quarter minute piano ballad highlighting Samia’s vocal fortitude. Incredibly, the vibe shifts: on “Mad At Me,” Samia teams up with Rostam for throbbing pop production with a feature from Minnesota-based Papa Mbye.
Even within songs, Samia will complicate her sound. On “Sea Lions,” Samia sets the mood with a gentle piano ballad before accentuating her voice with additional tracking and the whistle of electronics overhead. Halfway through the track, she transitions to a noisy, eerie dance beat as a text-to-voice automaton recites phrases in rapid succession.
does not necessarily give back, returning an inconsistent set of identities that do not always highlight what makes her a promising artist. Samia instead sinks into the honey like quicksand, encasing her to the point of occlusion.
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