[troutman]

First Play: Samantha Savage Smith, Fine Lines

http://music.cbc.ca/#!/blogs/2015/1/...ith-Fine-Lines

Don't be fooled by the sweet lilt in Samantha Savage Smith's voice or the airy hooks in the Calgary-based powerhouse's songs. Yes, her new record, Fine Lines (which you can stream above exclusively on CBC Music a week prior to its release), is a buoyant bunch of pop balloons and sugary melodies, but this isn't a quick-dissolve, cotton-candy job.

The songs are teaming with intelligence and clever insights about love in all its blissful and screwed-up permutations.