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An Echo

from A Small Death by Samantha Crain

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Lovely gatefold card case with CD of A Small Death. with option for signed by the artist or not.

    *A NOTE ON SHIPPING COSTS*
    I get a lot of emails about the pricey shipping costs so I just want to address it here. I'm not scamming you. These are the actual costs of the US postal service priority mail right now. Especially shipping outside of the USA, the costs are very high, I know. I wish I could do something about it to make this more accessible but I can't. I only send priority mail now instead of a cheaper media mail because I've had so many issues in the past with things getting lost or destroyed if I don't send priority mail and then I end up having to reimburse the cost of the record as well as the shipping and I've lost a lot of money that way so this is really the only option for me shipping right now unfortunately. Just know that all the shipping costs are going towards actual postage, I'm not pocketing any money beyond the cost of the item. I understand if you can't stomach the shipping cost, I don't blame you....love you anyways :)

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  • Handmade Limited Edition Cassette Tape (green) - A Small Death - signed
    Cassette + Digital Album

    hand-drawn limited edition cassette tape. I dubbed this tape at home on a Sanyo RD W49. I listened to Sam Amidon's Juma Mountain while drawing the j-card art. Each j-card is signed inside. comes with a digital download of A Small Death.

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  • Handmade Limited Edition Cassette Tape (purple) - A Small Death - signed
    Cassette + Digital Album

    hand-drawn limited edition cassette tape. I dubbed this tape at home on a Sanyo RD W49. I listened to Lomelda's album, Hannah, while drawing the j-card art. Each j-card is signed inside. comes with a digital download of A Small Death.

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  • Handmade Limited Edition Cassette Tape (blue) - A Small Death - signed
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    hand-drawn limited edition cassette tape. I dubbed this tape at home on a Sanyo RD W49. I listened to Eef Barzelay's Bitter Honey while drawing the j-card art. Each j-card is signed inside. comes with a digital download of A Small Death.

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  • VERY Limited Edition Test Pressing Vinyl of A Small Death, signed by Samantha Crain
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    1 of 4 existing test pressings of A Small Death on vinyl. Pressed on 180 gram black vinyl from QRP. Signed by Samantha Crain

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  • A Small Death 12" Vinyl--180gram--archival quality pressing (option for autographed)
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    12" vinyl version of A Small Death. 180 GRAM. Archival quality pressing from Quality Record Pressing. On original black vinyl for best sound quality. with lyric insert. with option for signed by the artist or not.

    *A NOTE ON SHIPPING COSTS*
    I get a lot of emails about the pricey shipping costs so I just want to address it here. I'm not scamming you. These are the actual costs of the US postal service priority mail right now. Especially shipping outside of the USA, the costs are very high, I know. I wish I could do something about it to make this more accessible but I can't. I only send priority mail now instead of a cheaper media mail because I've had so many issues in the past with things getting lost or destroyed if I don't send priority mail and then I end up having to reimburse the cost of the record as well as the shipping and I've lost a lot of money that way so this is really the only option for me shipping right now unfortunately. Just know that all the shipping costs are going towards actual postage, I'm not pocketing any money beyond the cost of the item. I understand if you can't stomach the shipping cost, I don't blame you....love you anyways :)

    Includes unlimited streaming of A Small Death via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Full Digital Discography

    Get all 12 Samantha Crain releases available on Bandcamp and save 20%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Time After Time, Pick Apart / Bloomsday (Husbands remix), I Guess We Live Here Now, A Small Death, You Had Me At Goodbye, Under Branch & Thorn & Tree, Samantha Crain/Murder By Death Cover Each Other, Kid Face, and 4 more. , and , .

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about

I wrote parts of this song on either side of a mental and physical breakdown. The first two sections I wrote in the throes of heightened mental and emotional stress due to what seemed like a never ending barrage of problems: my family was falling apart, my health was declining, my personal life was in shambles, I was in 3 physically and financially debilitating car wrecks in the period of a single summer, my hands literally stopped working. It just seemed like I was drowning and so I began to shut down. My visceral ailments worsened with psychosomatic fusion. I regarded myself a dying person. I was mourning and grieving 30 years of trauma all at once and my body literally couldn’t bear it. Through various therapies, as I began to recover, I wrote the third section, looking back at what the previous 2 years had destroyed in me and seeing a clearer picture of revelations in myself and those in my life.

lyrics

An Echo

Somehow between us, the air became so thick we couldn’t reach to the other, an insurmountable divider. And I clawed at my throat, thinking Hera must’ve cursed me.
I can’t say the things I need to. I am just an echo bouncing off your forehead that’s tilted down and to the right. You can’t even look me in the eyes.

And so we stay this way through Easter, as we drive up 35 in dark to go visit my mother at the prison in Topeka. She is asking what’s the matter, as we stare into the vending machine, I can’t say the things I need to. I am just an echo bouncing off the glass into our likeness, whatever that is. Could someone look me in the eye?

But then became the summer when my hands appeared so useless I felt like a little baby and my pride evaporated like the water in a skillet and you softened like some butter. We never said the things we need to but an echo fades eventually and this is such a likeness, that is what it is. You don’t even need to look me in the eyes. You don’t need to look me in the eyes.

credits

from A Small Death, released July 17, 2020

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