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Samia releases new track 'Lizard' from forthcoming album 'Bloodless' out April 25 via Grand Jury
19 February 2025
Today, Samia has released her new song “Lizard”, the second track to be taken from her forthcoming third album Bloodless, out April 25 via Grand Jury. She previously shared the album’s first single “Bovine Excision”.
Buoyed by a bright melody and teetering synths, Samia explains: “It’s painful to stay present, to exist as a real, flesh-and-blood person at a party, after existing comfortably as a myth or a memory. And it was even more painful to try not to ruin a party I’d already ruined.”
Today, Samia announces a full North American tour and is set to perform a series of instores in the UK throughout April.
Bloodless, out April 25th via Grand Jury Music, is Samia’s follow-up to her 2023 breakout and award-winning record Honey. Recorded in North Carolina and her new home of Minneapolis, Bloodless is a richly layered album that was made with longtime collaborators co-producers Caleb Wright and Jake Luppen, as well as frequent songwriting partners Christian Lee Hutson and Raffaela.
"It’s easier to be what someone wants you to be if you give as little as possible,” says Samia. With Bloodless, she seeks comfort in absence, and explores the allure of existing as fantasy. Drawing inspiration from unsolved mysteries - inexplicable cattle mutilations, the presence of God, the impossibility of femininity - Samia examines how shadows can loom larger than their source. “I noticed a pattern in my life of wanting to live up to the person I became in someone's head; you become a lot bigger with distance.” Bloodless, which shifts seamlessly from sparse folk to sweeping indie-pop epics, adorned with haunting harmonies and spectral imagery, seeks a path through that space between void and flesh-and-blood presence. Samia would like to be both, to be whole, to be impossible.
Tour dates
25-04 - Brighton, UK – Resident
26-04 - Bristol, UK – Rough Trade
28-04 - Liverpool, UK – Rough Trade
29-04 - Leeds, UK – Jumbo
30-04 - Nottingham, UK – Rough Trade
01-05 - London, UK – Rough Trade East [Matinee Show]
01-05 - London, UK – Rough Trade East SOLD OUT
20- 05 - Portland, ME - Portland House of Music
21-05 - Boston, MA - House of Blues *
22-05 - Northampton, MA - Academy of Music *
24-05 - Toronto, ON - Opera House *
25-05 - Montreal, QC - Le Studio TD *
26-05 - Burlington, VT - Higher Ground *
28-05 - Philadelphia, PA - TLA *
30-05 - New York, NY - Brooklyn Steel *
31-06 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club *
03-06 - Chicago, IL - Thalia Hall *
05-06 - Milwaukee, WI - Turner Hall *
06-06 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue *
07-06 - Kansas City, MO - Truman *
* w/Raffaella
Tracklist
01 Biscuits Intro
02 Bovine Excision
03 Hole In A Frame
04 Lizard
05 Dare
06 Fair Game
07 Spine Oil
08 Craziest Person
09 Sacred
10 Carousel
11 Proof
12 North Poles
13 Pants
Buoyed by a bright melody and teetering synths, Samia explains: “It’s painful to stay present, to exist as a real, flesh-and-blood person at a party, after existing comfortably as a myth or a memory. And it was even more painful to try not to ruin a party I’d already ruined.”
Bloodless, out April 25th via Grand Jury Music, is Samia’s follow-up to her 2023 breakout and award-winning record Honey. Recorded in North Carolina and her new home of Minneapolis, Bloodless is a richly layered album that was made with longtime collaborators co-producers Caleb Wright and Jake Luppen, as well as frequent songwriting partners Christian Lee Hutson and Raffaela.
"It’s easier to be what someone wants you to be if you give as little as possible,” says Samia. With Bloodless, she seeks comfort in absence, and explores the allure of existing as fantasy. Drawing inspiration from unsolved mysteries - inexplicable cattle mutilations, the presence of God, the impossibility of femininity - Samia examines how shadows can loom larger than their source. “I noticed a pattern in my life of wanting to live up to the person I became in someone's head; you become a lot bigger with distance.” Bloodless, which shifts seamlessly from sparse folk to sweeping indie-pop epics, adorned with haunting harmonies and spectral imagery, seeks a path through that space between void and flesh-and-blood presence. Samia would like to be both, to be whole, to be impossible.
Tour dates
25-04 - Brighton, UK – Resident
26-04 - Bristol, UK – Rough Trade
28-04 - Liverpool, UK – Rough Trade
29-04 - Leeds, UK – Jumbo
30-04 - Nottingham, UK – Rough Trade
01-05 - London, UK – Rough Trade East [Matinee Show]
01-05 - London, UK – Rough Trade East SOLD OUT
20- 05 - Portland, ME - Portland House of Music
21-05 - Boston, MA - House of Blues *
22-05 - Northampton, MA - Academy of Music *
24-05 - Toronto, ON - Opera House *
25-05 - Montreal, QC - Le Studio TD *
26-05 - Burlington, VT - Higher Ground *
28-05 - Philadelphia, PA - TLA *
30-05 - New York, NY - Brooklyn Steel *
31-06 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club *
03-06 - Chicago, IL - Thalia Hall *
05-06 - Milwaukee, WI - Turner Hall *
06-06 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue *
07-06 - Kansas City, MO - Truman *
* w/Raffaella
Tracklist
01 Biscuits Intro
02 Bovine Excision
03 Hole In A Frame
04 Lizard
05 Dare
06 Fair Game
07 Spine Oil
08 Craziest Person
09 Sacred
10 Carousel
11 Proof
12 North Poles
