Samia returns with the pin-sharp pop of “Big Wheel”

With a knack for crafting personal and evocative odes to self-discovery, singer-songwriter Samia continues her introspective path with the light and breezy sound of “Big Wheel”. Released as part of an AA-side with its moodier counterpart “Stellate”, the new single follows the earlier 2020 tracks “Is There Something in the Movies?” and “Fit N Full”.

Striking an unmistakable 90s rock tone, Samia’s music is brimful with grungy guitar work and carefree pop melodies not dissimilar to nostalgia-fuelled contemporaries beabadoobee, Snail Mail and Soccor Mommy. With a knack for succinctly capturing the mood of her mind in the lyrics of her music, Samia’s latest outings are a means to expressing her most private feelings.

“‘Stellate’ and ‘Big Wheel’ are both love letters to people/parts of my life I had trouble confronting conversationally,” Samia shares of the tracks. “‘Stellate’ is a note to myself trying to make sense of old traumas and ‘Big Wheel’ is a plea to the people around me, but releasing them together feels like closing a chapter.”

“Big Wheel” is the audial equivalent to a lazy summer’s day spent cruising through the country; with brisk, pattering percussion, lazily loose guitar work and smatterings of synth, the track embodies a lighter tone than could be presumed by its lyrics. Samia’s vocal is similarly composed throughout, its affable coos akin to a low-key conversation with a close friend.

"’Big Wheel’ is about avoiding conflict at any cost,” she continues. “I wrote it after a few hours of laying in bed imagining hypothetical conversations with people that I was too scared to have in real life. It’s a passive confession of harboured resentments buried in a laundry list of gratitude."