Samantha Crain’s dusty, unmediated voice breathes new life into
threadbare folk arrangements, and her song “Killer” off of this year’s Under Branch & Thorn & Tree
is nothing if not a masterful example of what it sounds like to be
forward-thinking, genre-bending songwriter in this day and age. Despite
its title, this is a lively song overburdened with a darker message, and
its video illustrates that dichotomy perfectly. A young boy parades
through a near-abandoned town playing the role of a local cop. He scours
roadside sewers for abandoned toys and dolls and ends up perusing a
cemetery. Diffuser
reports that the track is a protest song that grapples with police
brutality and the disturbingly common, unjustifiable deaths of young
black men at the hands of cops. Crain said the following about the song
and video:
Every day we are told that progress is being made toward equality and fairness but it seems there are still widening gaps between classes, sexes, races and creeds… This song is a call for awareness.
Watch the Weston Getto Allen- and Dorian Electra-directed clip.
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