Swan Song Podcast #95 – Sam Griffiths (The Howl & The Hum)

Swan Song Podcast #95 – Sam Griffiths (The Howl & The Hum).

As The Howl & The Hum, Griffiths has spent the best part of the last decade honing this capacity for raw, vulnerable storytelling combined with music that artfully traverses everything from finger-picking folk to indie, country and electronica. With the release of his second album, Same Mistake Twice, Griffiths confronts the pain and chaos of recent tumultuous years across 12 tracks of his most direct songwriting to date. Surviving the breakup of his band, the global pandemic and reckoning with his future in music, Griffiths opens with the lines “I never make the same mistake twice/ I always aim for a third time,” before spiralling into finely-spun tales of dread, anxiety and self-destruction. “It took me a few years to get back to writing,” he says. “I wanted to be able to look back and laugh at my anxieties at what I was going through, to fill that pain and difficulty with words and melodies.” 

In this episode of the podacst Sam talks about writing his song “Same Mistake Twice”.

Sam’s song choice is “Circles” by Bill Callahan. Hear it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBAvWmrn_TQ

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