Виниловая пластинка Sam Weber – Shape Confused Cowboy Be You (Релиз 2025)

Ask Portland songwriter Sam Weber what Shape Confused Cowboy Be You means and he’ll direct you to the music. And no explanation is needed — you can hear the dimension of his work across his entire catalogue. He crafts dodecahedrons from song that feel progressive enough to live in their own world, yet hold a familiar resonance that places him in the continuum of the greats — a fellow keeper of the flame, Grammy winner Madison Cunningham, features two Sam Weber co-compositions on her latest album, Ace. His long list of collaborators and packed touring schedule says Weber is due for his place in the sun. For now, the brim of a George Strait Signature is providing the shade.

This LP feels like a culmination of Sam’s efforts as much as the harbinger of what’s next. This is no pastoral throwback album. Nor does it pretend to usurp another genre’s legacy with western ornamentation. Songs like “[link removed by eBay]” and “[link removed by eBay]” suggest that Weber has his eyes on the prairie, but “used001.art,” among other tracks, shows he’s looking inward to see the future:

A shot rings wide and the pressures rise
From a car or a gun a combustion heading somewhere for someone
You better get used to it it’s a strange new world

This album is full of poetics, and is a striking musical statement. Counting Portland folkie Anna Tivel (singing with voice and fiddle) and Dawes drummer Griffin Goldsmith among its personnel, Shape Confused Cowboy Be You is a quiet storm shifting from narrow drum machines to grand sweeping strings. Still, shouldering the load is Weber’s adroit musicianship as a multi-instrumentalist, delivering complex piano chords and wiry guitar lines.

Format / LP
Released / 04/28/2025
Catalogue / SEC-015
Barcode / 090952256570
Artist / Sam Weber
Label / Big Secret Records
Genre / Pop / Rock