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- Summary: The third full-length studio release from New York alternative singer-songwriter Samia was recorded with Caleb Wright and Hippo Campus' Jake Luppen.
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- Record Label: Grand Jury
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Singer/Songwriter
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Apr 25, 2025We already knew Samia was a sublime songwriter, but on her third album, she sets a new bar – and then some.
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Apr 24, 2025Sharp, vivid songwriting is central to Samia’s craft, and with ‘Bloodless’, her superpower lies in her curiosity for the unknown, and an ability to turn herself inside out, facing the raw, uncomfortable, and deeply human parts of herself head on.
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Apr 25, 2025Bloodless is the work of a poet at the top of her game.
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Apr 24, 2025‘Bloodless’ will fascinate anyone who stumbled across the path of ‘Honey’, while also charming new listeners.
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Apr 25, 2025That image of her — other people's perceptions — have always haunted her work, but near the end of Bloodless, on "Proof," Samia takes control of the narrative. As she confronts being loved "like a child's toy or cigarette" atop the descent of a warm yet aloof finger-plucked acoustic guitar line, she's at her most powerfully direct and poetically impact.
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Apr 24, 2025The result is often beautiful, but it doesn’t come easy. This is transformation by scalpel, told in songs that are messy, defiant, and unflinchingly honest.
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Apr 24, 2025Whether, taken together, the take-me-or-leave-me Bloodless is ultimately appropriately chaotic and admirably confrontational or, rather, overcooked is up to the beholder, but Samia's knack for strong melodic hooks and open vulnerability here are unquestionable and consistent.