Partisan Records is thrilled to announce the signing of Los Angeles-based artist, Sam Burton. Sam was born and raised outside of Salt Lake City in what he calls a “truck stop town,” but moved to LA to pursue music. In the last year he toured with Loving and Jose Gonzalez. He recently wrapped up a three-week residency at Los Angeles’ Club TeeGee, and will head out on the road with Weyes Blood and Indigo Sparke in the coming months.
“Dear Departed”, the second album from Burton, is set to release July 14th. Sam describes the album as being wracked with pain and loss, and he spends much of the time saying goodbye to a version of himself.
“Dear Departed” is the follow up to Burton’s acclaimed 2020 debut “I Can Go With You”. With production from Jonathan Wilson (Angel Olsen, Father John Misty, Margo Price), Burton achieves a sound that never descends into retro pastiche, but rather becomes an evocative echo, a dream of the past.
Like Sam and his band are crammed onto the corner stage of a smoke-filled bar in a long-lost time. Exemplified best by lead single “Long Way Around,” smoldering melodies are met again and again with ripples of piano and swells of orchestration – headlined by Sam’s evocative, velvet-lined vocals.
“Dear Departed”, the new album by Sam Burton, out July 14th, 2023:
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