Samiam just released their brand new record, Trips, via Hopeless Records and vocalist Jason Beebout was kind enough to write-up a Track-By-Track guide behind each song on the album for fans. If you haven’t picked up the album yet be sure to, and read up on the guide!

80 West:I’m driving across the crumbling San Francisco Bay Bridge in my shitty old van late one evening on my way to the beach. Something I enjoy very much that I don’t get to do as much as I’d like. It makes me happy. Or maybe it’s about a girl, I’m not sure.

Clean Up:I woke up New Year’s Day 2011 and I felt strangely optimistic. Nothing had changed in my life and I hadn’t made any New Year resolutions or anything like that. In fact, I had a hangover and my life seemed somewhat pointless and shitty, but for some dumb reason I had a sense that things were about to get better. And they did. 

September Holiday:Before he died, Sean’s grandpa told him a story straight out of “the last picture show” about the tortured love affair he’d had with Sean’s grandma. It was a beautiful story.

Demon:Marital bliss.

Crew Of One:After working for this guy for 10 years, he fired me via email while I was on vacation and bought a sailboat.When I was a kid my dad used to smoke while he took a dump and he’d leave the cigarette butt floating in the toilet. I made a game out of pissing on the half finished cigarette, trying to blast it to pieces. I imagined it was a boat full of unlucky sailors suffering my wrath as the bits of tobacco scattered around the bowl. In my former employer’s case, it’s just him alone in his sinking  boat as a massive storm kicks up out of nowhere and he dies a lonely, miserable, pissy death.

Dead:I have a young son whom I love and enjoy very much, and a daughter on the way who’s sure to be the apple of my eye. But, sometimes when I think of how much spontaneity, risky business, and selfishness I’m missing out on - I can’t help feeling that my life is over.

How Would You Know:More marital bliss.

Nightly:You just can’t keep up with some folks, but it’s always worth a try.

Free Time:I ain’t got shit to do. The kind they used to pay me to.

Eldorado:I once drank for a week straight in a cabin near Lake Tahoe Nevada and drove myself directly to jail.

Magellan:I have been with my wife on and off for 22 years. Despite all our attempts to sabotage our relationship, we are still together. I don’t know what she saw or sees in me and I still get upset about things that have happened in the past, but I can’t remember why anymore. So, what’s the point?

Did You Change:Honor thy parents.

Happy For You:Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone?