Sam Weber Drops New Single ‘Void’
Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist Sam Weber has just shared his brand new single Void, the latest single to be lifted from his upcoming album, Clear + Plain, set to arrive on August 23rd via Sonic Unyon Records.
I am loving the raw emotion and comforting atmosphere of this song, instantly getting me in a reflective mood and feeling every single word he is singing. Void is a gently rollicking journey which muses on Weber’s time spent in New Mexico, juxtaposing a story within its lyrics which found Weber coming dangerously close to losing his life on the state’s highways. I adore those vocals which are beautifully accompanied by a stripped-backed instrumentation that pairs glimmers of piano with delicate guitar and brushed drums that together create an overall warm, meditative atmosphere perfect for a laid-back weekend.
Speaking about the song, Weber said,
[Void] was written around the time Mal and I went to Bosque Del Apache nature preserve outside of Socorro, NM so they could film and photograph the sandhill crane migration.
The same Socorro that’s known for the Lonnie Zamora Incident, one of the best documented close encounters of the third kind. Driving north on the 25 highway, we were looking at emergency vehicles headed south in the opposite lane. I turned back to our lane and there was a car inside of 100 feet driving toward us on the wrong side of the road. I grabbed the wheel from Mal who was driving and ripped it into the passing lane, and we teetered on two wheels and almost rolled the car and died. I think some of that near mortal energy combined with all the alien energy made its way out of me in ‘Void.’