Fish Tales
FASTER, THE NEW album from New Orleans blues-rocker Samantha Fish, doesn’t sound like it was created during a dark time in history. With a slinky, devious opening riff and a flirtatious vow to “make your heart beat faster,” Fish lets us know from note one that life in COVID lockdown hasn’t taken the mischievous glint out of her eyes.
“This album… I feel like it’s a big moment for me,” the 32-year-old singer/guitarist offers. “I feel like we all went through something collectively last year. I think it’s transformative for us as a group of people, but also individually, and so for me, this is about shaking off everything.”
Though her first love is the blues, Fish has taken many musical styles to the fitting room over the years — soul, country and funk, to name just a few. This time out, her music intermittently recalls a time long before anyone had ever heard of the coronavirus… namely, the Eighties. With its tastefully placed splashes of synth and occasional visits from the ghosts of Prince is long on catchy pop choruses and stick-out-your-tongue rock ’n’ roll swagger.
