Singer-songwriter Victoria Canal today announces details of her new EP WELL WELL, due for release on Friday 18th August via Parlophone Records. Today she also shares new single ‘Company’, lifted from the EP alongside previous singles ‘Shape’ and ‘She Walks In’.
‘Company’ is a warm, heartfelt ode to friendship, and explores the liminal space that exists between platonic and queer love, landing ultimately on the fact that wanting someone around matters more than any definitions: “Honestly, I love your company”.
Of the track Canal adds “I wrote Company about that completely calm, settled feeling around someone… not having any expectations of what the relationship means, but just appreciating any chance to share space together. A simple, wholesome love song for the gays :)”
Victoria Canal’s new EP WELL WELL follows 2022’s Elegy EP, a bittersweet collection of tracks created as a way to process grief. After experiencing creative and emotional catharsis, Canal is turning the lens back on herself to look inwards: grown from heartache and made with unabashed honesty, WELL WELL finds the artist at her most vulnerable—and her most courageous.
Recent singles ‘Shape’ and ‘She Walks In’ were the first time she’d shared on the themes of body image and body dysmorphia, pertaining in part to her limb difference. WELL WELL embraces the discomfort of self-analysis: “These days I’m writing mostly to confront things about myself in order to gain more of an understanding and acceptance of them,” she shares. “The phrase ‘WELL WELL’ struck me as a natural follow up to Elegy. I’ve grieved this person and now I’m dealing with what’s left,” Canal resolves, “I needed to stare myself in the face and realize that this is it. It’s a wounded rebirth.”
This EP marks an expansion for Canal, not just thematically, but also with regard to collaborators. Working with the likes of Sean Carey (Bon Iver), Grammy winners Madison Cunningham and Jacob Collier and Tony Berg helped push the musician creatively in a way she’s never experienced before. “In past projects I’ve been on my own or working with my buddies, which is amazing,” she remarks, “But this time I got to work with some of my heroes while also holding my own in the studio.” The artist attributes WELL WELL’s cohesive sound to her clear vision and the fact that everything was mixed at Sound City by veteran engineer Joseph Lorge (Blake Mills, Perfume Genius, Jon Batiste).
WELL WELL EP tracklist:
Shape
She Walks In
Braver (ft. Madison Cunningham)
Yes Man (ft. S. Carey)
Company
Black Swan
Victoria Canal recently won the Rising Star award at the prestigious Ivor Novellos, which celebrates the craft of songwriters, composers and creators, and was the recipient of an Attitude Pride Icon Award last month. She was also named BBC Radio 1’s Future Artist for June, and has been out on tour supporting Hozier on his UK and Europe tour: tonight she plays a huge outdoor gig at London’s Alexandra Palace Park.
See Victoria Canal live:
21 July - Alexandra Palace Park (Outdoor) - London, UK #
23 July - Englefield House - Berkshire, UK #
5 September - The Lower Third - London, UK
6 September - Deaf Institute, The Lodge - Manchester, UK
7 September - Sunflower Lounge - Birmingham, UK
8 September - The Louisiana - Bristol, UK
9 September - Webster Theatre - Glasgow, UK
13 September - Secret Show - Brussels, BE
16 September - Privatclub - Berlin, DE
29 September - Stone Family Field Trip - Liberty Lake, WA
14 October - Showbox Sodo - Seattle, WA *
15 October - Crystal Ballroom - Portland, OR *
17 October - Warfield - San Francisco, CA*
18 October - Novo - Los Angeles, CA*
19 October - House of Blues - San Diego, CA*
21 October - Marquee Theatre - Phoenix, AZ *
5 December - Rock Lobster - Antwerp, BE
6 December - Le Pop Up Du Label - Paris, FR
7 December - Paradiso (Upstairs) - Amsterdam, NL
15 December - Culture House Emotia - Erpe-Mere, BE
# with Hozier
* with Sammy Rae and friends
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