Samantha Josephine Releases ‘Morning Child’
Independent musician Samantha Josephine today releases her latest single, Morning Child. Built on soft vocals, minimalist piano, and wavering drums, the track uses lyrical impressionism to explore her inner experience of trauma, dissociation, and the safety found in the natural world. Following the success of her previous single How To Be In Love, which climbed to #5 on the Radioscope Alt Airplay charts, Josephine continues to refine her “anti-pop” sound, a style described by critics as refreshingly real, honest, and peculiarly mesmerising.
Morning Child serves as a courageous map of survival. At its core, the track is filled with euphemisms’ minimising otherwise jarring and frightening lived experiences. A very clear example of this is the repetitive use of the word “awkward” to describe flashbacks and repeated abandonment, as well as the use of the phrase “water in the stare’ to describe derealisation.
Josephine emphasises as with all her creative works, her lyrics are recorded in a state of stream-of-consciousness and so the meaning she finds in the words are deciphered by her own interpretation of her unconscious mind, which she assumes is inherently prone to error, in regards to the music itself Josephine says, “For me, the track has four separate scenes, almost like a play, Each segment feels like its own distinct place.”
