“On Honey, Samia finds her power in being an open book.”
“On her second album of raw, deliciously sad indie-rock, Nashville-based Samia constantly flits between blackly comic confessionals and excruciating bloodletting. Opener Kill Her Freak Out, underpinned by a funereal organ sigh, imagines her killing an ex’s new lover, the words delivered with a shrug of internet-speak irony. Moments later, however, she draws the listener back in: “Can I tell you som”
““Can I tell you something? I’ve never felt so unworthy of loving,” Samia mournfully sings to introduce us to her second album ‘Honey’, a wise and wilting record about that painful part of coming of age where you have to figure out how to stay alive with all the fears you haven’t grown out of. The New York songwriter could be compared to the likes of Olivia Rodrigo or Phoebe Bridgers for her confe”
“Samia returns with revelatory clarity on Honey”
“After an arresting opener, the singer-songwriter’s second album wanders into a fog of existential angst and you-had-to-be-there anecdotes.”
“The Nashville-via-NYC singer-songwriter explores emotion, genre, and experience with a breadth that overshadows her depth on her second LP”
