''Subconscious'' is the second studio album from American singer

Samantha James Samantha James is an American dance pop singer from Los Angeles, known for her style of blending downtempo to uptempo dance music, with soulful vocal styles. She released her debut album, '' Rise'', in 2007 through Om Records. The title track f ...

under the label

Om Records Om Records is an American record label, established in 1995, which releases electronic music, dance music and hip hop. The label was founded in San Francisco in 1995 by Chris Smith. Om Records releases both artist albums and compilations, incl ...

. The album was released on June 22, 2010, featuring the first single "Waves of Change", produced by

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Background

James considers this record a "miracle" after experiencing emotional distress, due to her father's death from cancer, and a bad breakup. She then gained strength from her losses to write a new album, with songs consisting of both negative and positive lyrical content. Thus, the album is titled "''Subconscious''" because "''the songs wrote themselves subconsciously''". Samantha also expressed concern writing new songs because she wanted to satisfy her audience. She then started to work with

Sebastian Morton Sebastian Arocha Morton is a Grammy-nominated American record producer and composer based in Los Angeles, California. Throughout his career as a record producer and songwriter, Morton has worked with many notable artists, including Seal, Sting, ...

again, but he got occupied by another project, so Samantha got in touch with junior high school friend Shane Drasin to produce the remainder of the album.

Singles

The first single was named "''Waves of Change''" was released on March 2, 2010. The single reached #12 on the billboard chart Dance/Club, and charted for about eight weeks. The single was produced and the leading track was remixed by

. The single "''

Subconscious In psychology, the subconscious is the part of the mind that is not currently of focal awareness. Scholarly use of the term The word ''subconscious'' represents an anglicized version of the French ''subconscient'' as coined in 1889 by the psycho ...

''" was released on iTunes on June 16, 2010. The single was officially released on August 10, 2010.

Track listing

References

{{Authority control 2010 albums Samantha James albums Chill-out music albums Albums produced by Sebastian Arocha Morton