Samson & Delilah

Vanessa ''V V'' Brown announces her return to music with details of her forthcoming highly anticipated second studio album ''Samson & Delilah'', out October 8 in the US on YOY Records. Not only is V V Brown back, but she's added something new to her resume: she can be labeled a singer, songwriter, producer and now a record label owner. Having already achieved over 1 million worldwide single sales of ''Shark in the Water'' from her critically acclaimed debut album ''Travelling Like the Light'', V V has initiated a new direction and chapter for her new album. She has returned with an edgier, darker sound, co-produced by Mercury Award winning producer Dave Okumu. ''Substitute for Love,'' the album's opening track, sets down a marker for what follows. V V's extraordinarily operatic vocal is the first surprise; but so, too, is the sonic world the song creates, where V V's voice is just one texture among many, all working in the service of a rich and complex and incredibly dark sonic palette. Listen to the dark-as-night electronica of songs such as the sinister, sepulchral ''Knife'', or the shimmering, LCD Soundsystem-like ''Faith,'' or the defiant, propulsive follow-up single ''The Apple,'' and you know that ''Samson & Delilah'' is the pure truth.