Minneapolis-based singer and songwriter Samia will release her breathtaking third album, Bloodless, next month. She previously shared the album’s first two singles “Bovine Excision” and “Lizard,” and she has shared two more tracks off of the forthcoming album. “Hole in a Frame,” inspired by Sid Vicious punching a wall at Cain’s Ballroom in 1978,  and the 7-minute stunner “Pants” are both out alongside visualizers by Sarah Ritter, with the “Pants” video starring actor Fred Hechinger (White Lotus, Nickel Boys, Gladiator II).  

On both tracks, Samia notes: “I paired these tracks because they capture opposite instincts. ‘Hole in a Frame’ is about a fascination with disappearing and the power of absence. ‘Pants’ is about accepting a non-refundable self, social contexts and all. They move from a comfort in the possibilities of emptiness to the reality of existence.”

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 Wrightand Jake Luppen, as well as frequent songwriting partners Christian Lee Hutsonand Raffaella.  

“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

04-25 – Brighton, UK – Resident **SOLD OUT**

04-26 – Bristol, UK – Rough Trade **SOLD OUT**

04-28 – Liverpool, UK – Rough Trade

04-29 – Leeds, UK – Jumbo

04-30 – Nottingham, UK – Rough Trade

05-01 – London, UK – Rough Trade East [Matinee Show]

05-01 – London, UK – Rough Trade East **SOLD OUT**

05-20 – Portland, ME – Portland House of Music

05-21 – Boston, MA – House of Blues *

05-22 – Northampton, MA – Academy of Music *

05-24 – Toronto, ON – The Opera House *

05-25 – Montreal, QC – Le Studio TD *

05-26 – Burlington, VT – Higher Ground *

05-28 – Philadelphia, PA – Theatre of Living Arts *

05-30 – New York, NY – Brooklyn Steel *+

05-31 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club *

06-03 – Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall *

06-05 – Milwaukee, WI – Turner Hall *

06-06 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue *

06-07 – Kansas City, MO – The Truman *

* w/Raffaella

+ w/ Hank Heaven

Photo Courtesy: Graham Tolbert