SAMIA announces third album
SAMIA has announced her "breathtaking" new album 'Bloodless', which is set to be released on April 25.
SAMIA has announced her "breathtaking" new album.
The 28-year-old singer's "richly-layered" third album 'Bloodless' - which is set to be released on April 25 - is packed with haunting harmonies and spectral imagery, and it comes off the back of her award-winning record 'Honey' in 2023.
Drawing inspiration from unsolved mysteries, it shifts seamlessly from sparse folk to sweeping indie-pop and seels a path through that space between void and flesh-and-blood presence - with her wanting to be both, to be whole, to be impossible.
The Los Angeles-born songstress drew inspiration from unsolved mysteries - inexplicable cattle mutilations, the presence of God, the impossibility of feminity.
The 13-track album was created with longtime collaborators and co-producers Caleb Wright, of The Happy Children, and Jake Luppen, from Hippo Campus, as well as frequent songwriting partners Christian Lee Hutson and Raffaela.
It explores her relationship with a fragmented, symbolic version of men - a patchwork of expectations and imagined standards she tried to meet, which ultimately shaped her sense of self.
She said: "I was drawn to the phenomenon of bloodless cattle mutilation as a metaphor for self-extraction - this clinical pursuit of emptiness ...
"I’ve spent the past two decades unintentionally conflating an abstract idea of men with my understanding of God.
"The person I became in order to impress this imagined figure is inseparable from who I am today.
"A significant part of my personality was built around traits and behaviors I believed - whether through observation or hearsay - men would like. With this album, I’ve tried to confront that head-on."
SAMIA repeats that sentiment – “I want to be impossible” – throughout the chorus of the 'Bloodless’' lead single and opening track 'Bovine Excision'.
Inspired by the mysterious phenomenon involving the bloodless surgical removal of cattle organs, 'Bovine Excision' finds SAMIA’s voice flowing through evocative lyrics with ease, alongside the gentle strum of a lone acoustic guitar.
The quiet intimacy builds into a storm of sound, culminating in SAMIA's layered, ethereal harmonies that pierce with a haunting, macabre refrain that reveals the album title: 'And drained, drained bloodless'.
Alongside this, SAMIA has announced a UK in-store tour taking place throughout April.
Pre-order 'Bloodless' here.
Listen or watch 'Bovine Excision' here.
Samia UK in-store dates:
April 25 - Brighton, Resident
April 26 - Bristol, Rough Trade
April 28 - Liverpool, Rough Trade
April 29 - Leeds, Jumbo Records
April 30 - Nottingham, Rough Trade
May 01 - London, Rough Trade East
