4.52am Issue: 003 9th October 2016

SAM EVIAN
Premium
Premium is New Yorker Sam Evian’s debut
album, and you will be shocked at just how
accomplished a sound he has managed to
put together so early in his career. It could
easily be a 70s Classic we are reviewing, full
of songs written by James Taylor or Carole
King as without aping anybody - and he has
definitely a sound and style of his own -
every track has that innate familiarity that
has you muttering along halfway through
the song, feeling like you should know the
words, and glad nobody else is taking any
notice of you.
Not that many will manage to singalonga
Sam as vocally he has a range that would
have many of his contemporaries thinking
twice and finding something else to do
quicksmart if a suggestion of duet came up,
and despite keeping it hidden a lot of the
time, when he turns the power on, it is a
definite force.
As songs and style, Premium does have
that classic feel but is most definitely
new, and I’ve mentioned James Taylor
but it is John Lennon that I was instantly
comparing him to in my head, although
the songs are perhaps less raw than the
fish shaver was known for.
I won’t say ‘for a debut’ as that is
insulting, as this has all the hallmarks of a
classic album all by itself, and in Sam
Evian the world has found itself a modern
troubadour and in Premium he has set his
stall out for future world domination.
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