Samia announces new album ‘Bloodless’
Samia’s single ‘Bovine Excision’ is an emotionally charged gem.
Photo: Sarah Ritter
The Los Angeles-born artist is coming out swinging right at listeners’ heartstrings with a new single.
As Samia gears up for her 4th album in five years, her album announcement single is rich with lyricism that evokes a sense of sadness, as the title of the track suggests on first impression.
The track starts as acoustic-only and kicks into more complex production as it progresses, this plays off of the rich, charged and metaphorically dizzying vocals that Samia lends to the track.
The loss of self-identity cultivated within the track is littered with a variety of references: Raymond Carver, an American writer, early on, to “The Princess and the Pea”, a fairy-tale by Hans Christian Andersen, to Edgar Degas, a French impressionist artist.
Even outside of historical references to the arts, the layered statements not explicitly available by name or by other means are equally as accessible: speaking of purity being drained from one’s self-ties in very beautifully with the impossibility of image, whether it be self-image or the warped images of the people around. The complexities all weave together to tell a story of losing grasp of who one is, a distinct feeling of emptiness well-received, as everything put together on this track shines and shines extremely well to allow for that feeling to resonate for the roughly 3-minute runtime it lends to the listener.
Samia finds the perfect balance within this song in regards to its’ alt-rock genre, and will lead to big things in regards to her future album, Bloodless, expected in springtime.
Bovine Excision is out now via Grand Jury. Bloodless is out April 25th and is available to pre-order here.