Samia – ‘Bloodless’ review: a sublime songwriter sets a new bar

Samia – ‘Bloodless’ review: a sublime songwriter sets a new bar

Since the release of her debut album ‘The Baby’ in 2020, Samia has become known as a songwriter with a knack for the diaristic and the vulnerable; an artist who is profoundly relatable by being highly personal, distilling the complexities of young womanhood into lines that sear. Second record ‘Honey’, released in 2023, only reinforced that notion, infusing more dark humour into songs full of pain and poignancy. On ‘Bloodless’, she takes all that…

10 Albums Out Today to Listen to: Samia, Deerhooof, Maria Somerville, and More

In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on April 25, 2025: Samia, Bloodless Samia is back with her third album, Bloodless, out now via Grand Jury. Recorded in North Carolina and Minneapolis, the follow-up to 2023’s Honey is grittier but no less vividly rendered than her previous albums. “I’ve spent the past two decades unintentionally conflating an abstract idea of men with my understanding of …

Samia's 'Bloodless' Is A Genre-Bending Concept Album

NYLONThe month that Samia released her second album, Honey, she began working on her third. “I had a really overwhelming experience releasing a second album, which many people warned me I would have,” the 28 year-old says. “You put out a first album and nobody knows who you are, so there's no expectation. Put out a second album, there's a small group of people with really strong expectations, so you're likely going to disappoint them. I'm so gra…

Samia Presents New Album, Bloodless, Live in NYC

A week before her album release, the indie rock artist hosted fans at a New York City studio to hear it early. I always love Samia’s music. Whether I’m blasting “Charm You” in my noise cancelling AirPods or streaming “Kill Her Freak Out” through the old wired headphones that can’t hide an impromptu backing track of a passing train or outside chatter; whether “Show Up” is playing from my shitty phone speaker or “Amelia” radiates through a Sonos …