Death Star WonderSamuel · 2013

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“There’s a rawness to Irish-born, London-based Samuel’s voice that prickles the hairs on the back of the neck. Brought up in a convent children’s home, he once told me in an interview that he only had access to “holy music” as a kid. Back then, he made strung-out synth lullabies—but now, a bloody defiance blazes in his delivery. On “Death Star Wonder” (download here), from his debut EP Falling Star”