Los Angeles, CA -- Lecx Stacy will be releasing his upcoming EP Held My Gaze on September 15. This week, he’s shared the next single from the project “Took My Time” featuring rei brown and sam.sts. The track spans just under 4 minutes long and the cinematic build of the song will have you feeling like the main character of a movie contemplating your journey thus far. “Took My Time” is an alternative indie folk song that captures a youthfulness that is nostalgic and warm, leaving listeners in a haze of memories.

On the track, Lecx Stacy shares: “This song and video is my exploration of Americana and serves as a country love ballad. This is that truck-sitting music.”

Lecx Stacy · Took My Time (feat. rei brown & sam.sts)

Connect with Lecx Stacy:

1) watermelon sugar - harry styles

2) sunflower, vol. 6 - harry styles

3) golden - harry styles

4) canyon moon - harry styles

5) sofia - clairo

6) flaming hot cheetos - clairo

7) could this be love? - saturn 17

8) epitaph - hippo campus

9) tuesday - hippo campus

10) western kids - hippo campus

11) nobody - mitski

12) evil spider - benee

13) buttercup - jack stauber

14) painkiller - ruel

15) applesauce - sam.sts

16) sweet tooth - cavetown

17) ghost adventure spirit orb - chloe moriondo

18) lovebug - jonas brothers

Newcomer Sam.Sts may only have a handful of singles to his name but he is clearly on the cusp of something special. First catching our eye back in 2018 with the release of “Tokyo,” we praised the then 18-year-old artist’s impressive ability of balancing all the woes and joy of high school with a budding music career. Now, nearly two odd years later, Sam.Sts has returned with his long-awaited follow-up, “Only One I Know.”

From the very first moments of “Only One I Know,” it is clear as day that the Indiana native has spent the past couple of years busily perfecting his craft. Combining the gospel roots of his new home of Chicago with an understated pop-leaning wit, Sam.Sts makes his way through an ethereal soundscape that is simultaneously wistful and heavenly. He spoke further on the inspiration behind the new track, sharing,

“When I was writing this, I was preparing to head off to my first semester of college in Chicago and just in a heavy transition period in my life in general.”

Our initial praise of Sam.Sts and his infectious musings originally led us to a knee-jerk comparison to Rex Orange County, and while the similar penchant for lively sonic storytelling remains, in “Only One I Know” the rising artist truly comes into his own. It would be no understatement to say that amidst a period of change and reflection Sam.Sts has emerged with a single that bears all hypnotic elements of its predecessors and the shimmer of a newfound emotional intelligence.

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