Today Samantha Urbani shares “Time Keeps Slipping“, the final single to be revealed from her forthcoming debut album Showing Up which releases this Friday 22nd September.
The Santigold-esque funk-pop of “Time Keeps Slipping” pairs glassy midi strings with a satisfyingly squelching bassline and features an ethereal sample of London based 80s pop duo Rexy’s cult track “Running Out of Time“. This fierce and self-referential ode is the perfect lead-in for Urbani’s long-awaited debut album release and follows recent singles “Showing Up”, “One Day at a Time” and “More Than a Feeling”, further revealing the shades and depths of Urbani’s impeccably crafted LP.
The lyrics see Urbani wryly reflecting on her early experiences in music, especially with her band Friends: “I was on a quest of anarchy, to rip apart success and pedigree… I became the hot commodity, with no way to avoid hypocrisy”.
Samantha says “This is my autobiography of my music career, the loopholes of being an anti-capitalist professional artist. To be the underdog but gain popularity. What do you do when your integrity mission has run its course? Because it’s crossed the line into hypocrisy. This may cause paralysis and the feeling of time passing in suspended animation hurts. Friends the band was a punk band, it’s paradoxical for something pure, resistant, radical, and anti-establishment to last in success in this world”.
