Premiere: Sam Small Shares New Single “Someday in December”
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Oct 13, 2025
After spending years as a sideman一touring and recording with Los Angeles-based indie outfits Man Man and Tyler Ballgame一singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Sam Small debuted in 2018 together with his EP, Hazel. Within the time since, he’s been engaged on a brand new album together with his backing band, Medicine Bunny. The total album is due out subsequent 12 months and finds Small and his collaborators pulling from an eclectic swirl of indie singer/songwriter, roots rock, and psychedelic touchstones, together with Wilco, Velvet Underground, Kurt Vile, Adrianne Lenker, and Caroline Rose.
Right now, Small is sharing the document’s first single, “Someday in December,” premiering with Underneath the Radar.
“Someday in December” winds by way of its cyclical shifts with a mild ease, guided by twangy guitar strains and meandering pedal metal. It’s directly melodic, elliptical, psychedelic, and reflective, as if the listener is following Small down an intersecting tangle of forest trails, getting steadily extra misplaced however at all times discovering themselves on the similar place they started. Small’s fundamental vocal melody repeats consistently, modulating the important thing for the refrain earlier than returning to the sprawling psych people mix of the verses. The vocal melody solely departs for a serene synth detour and a climactic sun-blazed guitar solo outro.
In the meantime, Small’s lyrics meditate on moments of home simplicity, damaged by loss with the aching refrain: “ There’s rust on the range / I can hear the copper clacking on the first fall of snow / It will get actual chilly in New Hampshire…However now I’m simply beating the tears again / And I’m simply scared / All my greatest days I do the pretending / However right here it’s once more / Take me again someday in December / Earlier than you disappeared.”
Small says of the monitor, “I wrote ‘Someday in December’ shortly after my dad died and all of it got here to me in a single sitting. I used to be fully torn aside on the time and felt like an emotionally risky loopy individual. It took apply to play the track with out choking up. The verse photos are all snippets from my childhood and the refrain is the conclusion of shedding that. The chords and melody fell in place as in the event that they’d at all times been there. I grew to become so mesmerized by the melody that when it got here time to discover a refrain, I knew it couldn’t keep the place it was so as an alternative of writing one thing completely new, I modulated the important thing as a manner of including a way of stress and urgency after which launched it again to the unique key for the subsequent verse. Whereas this track is deeply private, I hope listeners will discover their very own meanings. All of us expertise loss and I’d guess lots of people grew up with strict guidelines concerning the thermostat. Perhaps a choose few had been consumed buckwheat pancakes too (1 to 1 water to flour ratio).”
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