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SAM JR.’S SELF-TITLED DEBUT LP OUT NOW VIA ARTS & CRAFTS
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Recently, Sam Jr. (aka, Sam Goldberg Jr.) unveiled his self-titled debut LP, and today’s he’s paired up with Sebastien Grainger (King Sebby) for a remix of album single “You Lock The Door I Broke The Window”.
Sam says, “I reached out to Sebastien Grainger to see if he’d be interested in doing a remix, we’d collaborated in the past and it had been a while since we’d been in contact so I was excited when he sent the thumbs up emoji. We decided ‘You Lock The Door You Broke The Window’ was best suited as it has a lot of fun elements like cowbells and saxophones with a nice grooving beat. Pretty quickly he sent over a version with a reggae dancehall vocal that fit really well. He told me he just googled ‘Free reggae acapella vocal samples’. It fit perfect, I loved it. When it was time to submit the remix I was nervous about the vocal sample. It said free but to be safe I emailed the person who uploaded the vocal to no response. After some digging Sebastien found out the vocal belonged to…Beenie Man. Fuck. We had to submit the song in 24 hours and at that point there was no way we’d clear it in time. We thought of just trying to release it crossing our fingers but DSP’s would have blocked it. Tech is too strong in 2022. Anyhow I would have loved seeing Sam Jr featuring Beenie Man in print. Oh well maybe next time.”
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MORE ABOUT SAM JR.’S DEBUT LP
Fuzzed out guitars with psychedelic laced wah wahs and bongos?? And flutes? rock oozing buzzed out hippie rock ? Evil nihilist ooze-rock slacker fuzz? There’s a lot of play within that framework of Sam Jr.’s new self-titled debut so we’ll leave it to you to decide for yourself what Sam Jr. is all about when the appropriate moment comes.
“My concept for awhile making this record was actually ‘What would the Dude’s band from The Big Lebowski sound like?’” laughs Goldberg, the titular architect behind this long-overdue solo stepping-out. “I’m not sure it landed there at all, but I think I was trying to harness the easygoing nature and spirit of that character. I’m a hardwired optimist and a mellow person overall, and I wanted that to come across in the songs.”
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Meantime, you’re probably wondering how such a confident ‘debut’ could pop out of nowhere. Well, that’s because it didn’t. This Samuel Goldberg, Jr., chap looks oddly familiar, right? And that name… it rolls off the tongue nicely, yes, but it also rings a bell. So where exactly have you seen this guy before? Because you know you’ve seen him before.
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You have indeed seen Sam Goldberg before. And you’ve seen him pretty much everywhere, that’s where. If you’ve kept even a casual eye on the Canadian pop landscape for the past 25 years or so, in fact, Sam Goldberg, Jr., has been hiding in plain sight the whole time as a vital member of an uncanny number of bands with whom you’re either already acquainted or – and no judgement here – should perhaps be ashamed of yourself in hindsight for previously failing to get acquainted with.
Read the full biography by Ben Rayner : www.killbeatmusic.com/samjr