KASHENA SAMPSON ANNOUNCES NEW LP WITH SINGLE & VID "REARVIEW MIRROR" OUT TODAY

KASHENA SAMPSON HONORS MOONLIT EVOLUTION & CELESTIAL CYCLES WITH NEW LP

GHOST OF ME SET FOR RELEASE OCTOBER 3

SINGLE & VIDEO “REARVIEW MIRROR” OUT TODAY 

 LISTEN // WATCH: “REARVIEW MIRROR”

Nashville-based powerhouse Kashena Sampson has announced her forthcoming LP, Ghost Of Me, out on October 3, with the release of its lead single and accompanying video, “Rearview Mirror.” The song, co-written with friend and fellow Nashville songcrafter Caroline Spence, is a mirror for those moments when clarity only comes after the fact, once the moonlight has touched the shadows. 

“Shadow work has become one of the most sacred parts of my spiritual path, sitting with the parts of myself I once tried to bury, and learning to listen when my intuition whispers…or screams. ‘Rearview Mirror’ was born out of one of those shadowy moments,” Sampson recalls. “I was in a co-writing session that left me feeling small and scattered, but I couldn’t fully understand why until later that night. That’s often how my intuition speaks, subtle in the moment, clear only in hindsight. As I sat with the discomfort, the first line came through: ‘I only see it in the rearview mirror.’ The whole experience reminded me of the Death card in Tarot,” she continues. “Not an ending, but a transformation. A spiritual shake-up designed to clear the path for truth. The next day, I brought that line to Caroline. We wrote the song in about an hour. It just flowed.” The ethereal video for “Rearview Mirror” was filmed and directed by Josh Shoemaker. 

Already celebrated by Rolling Stone for “evoking the best of Seventies folk,” Sampson turns a new page with her third record. Produced by Grammy-nominated musician, producer, and composer Jon Estes, Ghost Of Me is a psychedelic folk-rock album that pulls up Sampson’s Americana roots and digs deep beneath the surface, uncovering the darker indie sounds that once provided the soundtrack to her childhood. Laced with electric guitar, reverb, and synthesizer, her latest effort offers a new backdrop for the songwriting and otherworldly singing of an East Nashville luminary who’s never sounded more authentic.

Ghost Of Me is structured like a ritual under the phases of the moon, a cycle of letting go, calling in, and rising again. That arc is felt across both the tracklist and the album’s release timeline, which intentionally aligns key singles and events with lunar milestones. “Rear View Mirror” arrives on July 25, just after the July 24 new moon. Built around crashing cymbals and guitarist B.L. Reed’s power chords, the song drives forward with the force of personal reckoning. The title track, “Ghost Of Me,” lands with an August 22 single release and a new moon intention-setting on August 23, embracing the theme of transformation at the heart of the record. On September 19, “Phases” emerges ahead of a rare September 21 convergence of the solar eclipse, new moon, and International Day of Peace, a moment echoed in the song’s psychedelic swirl and lunar howl. September 22 is the Fall Equinox, bringing with it a powerful time of reflection, growth, and new beginnings. The full album will be unveiled on October 3, just ahead of the full moon on October 6, which culminates the record’s lunar journey.

Sampson further explores her roots with “Heartache,” a haunting, nocturnal blast of 1980s pop/rock, with stacked vocal harmonies and icy guitars. “We recorded that song three different times, until it sounded industrial and dark,” she remembers. “It just needed a certain feeling. I was telling the band, ‘Think about vampires.’” Then there’s “Fucked Up Love,” a show-stealing torch song about a relationship gone bad. The track’s shoegazing arrangement is more Mazzy Star than Patsy Cline, with Sampson’s lyrics charting a course from codependency to self-reliance. When she wails, “If this is it, I’ve had enough” during the song’s final stretch, you believe her.

Ghost Of Me spans genres, emotional depths, and astrological tides. “This is an album about ignoring the bullshit and doing what’s authentic to me,” she explains. “Forget the rat race. Forget the bad relationships. Forget trying to please everybody. I’m tired of doing that. I wanted to do something for myself, and that’s what Ghost Of Me became," she continues. "It’s an album for me.”

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GHOST OF ME TRACK LIST

Ghost Of Me

Phases

Heartache

Fucked Up Love

Rearview Mirror

Awakening

God

Tragedy Of Love

Thick As Thieves

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