| Salt River | ||||
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| Studio album by Sam Amidon | ||||
| Released | January 24, 2025 | |||
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| Length | 43:42 | |||
| Label | River Lea | |||
| Producer | Sam Gendel [2] | |||
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| Singles from Salt River | ||||
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Salt River is the ninth studio album by American singer Sam Amidon. It was released on January 24, 2025, via River Lea Records. [3] It is Amidon's first album release since his 2020 eponymous album, Sam Amidon.
Salt River was produced by American saxophonist Sam Gendel. [2] It features the singles "I'm On My Journey Home", [4] "Friends and Neighbors", [5] and "Golden Willow Tree", [6] which were released on October 24, 2024, December 12, 2024, and January 21, 2025, respectively. Amidon described it as "a campfire, but the campfire is around Sam Gendel's synthesizer". [2]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| The Observer |   [7] |
| AllMusic | [8] |
| The Skinny | [3] |
| Pitchfork |    [1] |
| MusicOMH |  [9] |
| Hot Press | [10] |
The Observer rated the album three stars out of five, stating "As a domestic get-together, the album’s enjoyable enough, but actual magic is in short supply," [7] while music website AllMusic described it as "trippy, bucolic, sophisticated, and simple, like a dream about a folksong." [8] The Skinny added that "Salt River blurs the boundary between tradition and modernity," giving it four stars out of five. [3] Pitchfork gave the album a rating of 7.3 out of 10 and wrote that "overall, this is another fine example of Amidon’s capacious, bracingly simple definition of the genre yoked to him." [1] London-based magazine MusicOMH described Salt River as "another successful example of Amidon drawing on his folk upbringing and creating something very much on his own terms," and gave it a rating of 3.5 out of 5. [9] Will Russell of the Dublin-based magazine, Hot Press , gave a rating of eight out of ten to the album and remarked "vintage effort from US folk merchant." [10]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Oldenfjord" | 1:45 |
| 2. | "Three Five" | 4:18 |
| 3. | "Big Sky" | 3:59 |
| 4. | "Tavern" | 3:14 |
| 5. | "Golden Willow Tree" | 7:36 |
| 6. | "I'm On My Journey Home" | 4:16 |
| 7. | "Ask The Elephant" | 2:01 |
| 8. | "Cusseta" | 5:51 |
| 9. | "Friends And Neighbors" | 6:02 |
| 10. | "Never" | 4:41 |
| Total length: | 43:42 | |
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