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Sam Morton: Daffodils & Dirt review – actor’s intoxicating trip-hop debut
Oscar nominee Samantha Morton teams up with label exec Richard Russell for an unnerving, dreamy album inspired by childhood trauma
The duo’s new album, as Sam Morton, captures the uncanny prickliness innate to all the best trip-hop while folding in elements of dream-pop and no-wave, resulting in an unnerving, intoxicating listen. Inspired by Morton’s childhood, first living with abusive parents then moving around as a ward of the state, Daffodils & Dirt could have been unrelentingly dark, and its lyrics are often raw. Broxtowe Girl plays like a dub remix of an Anna Domino song, all disembodied drum machine and wandering vocals; the downtempo cut Let’s Walk in the Night is mysterious and seductive, pop designed for hot moonlight hours.
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