Sam Evian Shares New Single I Need A Man

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Sam Evian has shared a new single, I Need A Man.

The song will feature on his debut album, 'Premium', which is set for release on September 30 via Saddle Creek, with the New York-based musician describing it as "an analogue dream in a digital world."

Discussing the track, which you can check out below, Evian said:

"Serge Gainsbourg fans will recognize the reference from Histoire de Melody Nelson. I was listening to that album incessantly last February when the HB2 law passed in North Carolina, my home state. Amidst the routine chaos of global tragedy, things at home were crumbling. My home state was falling back into the dark ages, sexual abuse was (and is) everywhere... the music industry, my NYC community, everywhere. And the police were getting away with murdering young black men across the country - on video. So with all of that going on and "Melody Nelson" in my head, I latched onto Gainsbourg the provocateur and made my voice a twisted version of his story. I imagined part of me was Melody, the naive teenager in Serge's strange story of love and innocence lost. 'I need a man I can trust.' It's more of a conversation starter... is there such a thing?  My hope is that people in my community and abroad will start to look out for each other more, and take more action in preventing abuse and violence.

We recorded most of the song at Figure 8 in Brooklyn, and then caught some last-minute time for overdubs at the Magic Shop before it closed its doors for good. I sang on the mic that Bowie used for his last few albums, a Shure sm7. This was only a few months after he died, and I could feel his presence lingering."

Evian is set to play a handful of North American shows with Whitney in October.

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