Los Angeles-based singer Sam Burton has shared a new song and video for I Don’t Blame You, taken from his upcoming album Dear Departed (out 14 July via Partisan). Subtle fingerpicking drifts through time and space, ultimately resolving into a cinematic climax of strings, angelic backing vocals, and cymbal crashes – anchored as always by Sam’s velvet-lined vocals. Throughout the song and video, Burton finds beauty in wandering, using the journey itself as a means of self-discovery and rebirth.

Burton says: ‘This song was one that stuck out to me when I was writing the songs for this record. I felt like I found a hypnotic rhythm that transported me and it felt inspired by the landscape that I was staying in. I started to see imagery in my mind and I tried to capture the spirit of it. This song brings me back to that place in Northern California and makes me see the forest and the rivers. I think it’s so important for a writer to have an inner world they can go back to to reconnect with themselves and this song revealed that place to me.’

Dear Departed was produced by Jonathan Wilson (Angel Olsen, Father John Misty, Margo Price), and recorded at Wilson’s Topanga Canyon studio with some of the best studio players in LA. From the production to the performances to Burton’s core compositions, there’s a timelessness across its ten songs.

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