An Album Review of Liverpool’s Own Samuel Evanson — The Anatomy of Attraction
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Liverpool has a habit of producing artists with a strong sense of their own voice, and Samuel Evanson fits that tradition comfortably…
He’s been building steadily — earning features from Clash and Wonderland, picking up an International Music Video Award for ‘He Gave Me Nothing’, and developing a reputation as a live performer with real emotional depth. His sound doesn’t fit neatly into a single genre box, which is part of what makes him interesting: it’s defined more by feeling than by category, shaped around emotional honesty and a restrained modern approach to songwriting that leaves space to breathe.
The Anatomy of Attraction is his debut album, and it’s a genuinely ambitious thing — structured chronologically across the past two years of his life, each track a distinct emotional document. He’s described the writing process as being almost like therapy, a way of processing moments that felt too big to carry alone. You can hear that in how the record moves: not like a curated artistic statement, but like something worked through in real time.
Lead single ‘Casino’ opens the album at its most raw — sitting at the end of a relationship, looking back at the beginning with that particular mix of regret and helplessness that most people will recognise immediately. Evanson’s vocals are the thing that immediately sets him apart. Balancing vulnerability with restraint, they carry real weight without ever tipping into melodrama — the kind of voice you could pick out anywhere, and that rewards returning to.
From there the record breathes and shifts. ‘He Gave Me Nothing’ charts acceptance. ‘Run’ captures forward motion. ‘I Think I’m Ready’ opens up toward something softer and more hopeful. The emotional trajectory is tangible — the album genuinely does feel different by its close than it did at its opening, which is no small achievement. As Samuel himself has said, you can feel the change in feeling as the tracks go on. On this evidence, he’s an artist with both the material and the voice to go a long way.
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