Hailing from Shawnee, OK, the state that birthed both The Flaming Lips and Woody Guthrie, Samantha Crain writes with both the brazen conviction of the latter and the unflinching creative ambition of the former. Add The Midnight Shivers’ shadowy arrangements to Crain’s razor-sharp lyrics and all superficial lines of genre or aesthetic are blurred. Their sound is deeply rural and southern, but also itinerant and urban.