Samia Announces New Album Bloodless with Single “Bovine Excision”

Bloodless, which follows her debut The Baby and sophomore effort Honey, arrives on April 25 via Grand Jury Music.

Samia Announces New Album Bloodless with Single “Bovine Excision”
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It’s tempting to slide into the imagined version of ourselves constructed by others; there’s a sense of protection there, as well as the grandiosity of becoming the person on the pedestal. Singer-songwriter Samia knows this feeling firsthand, luxuriating in it—as well as existential mysteries—on her third album Bloodless. The LP was recorded between North Carolina and Minneapolis, and is due out on April 25 via Grand Jury Music. Bloodless, which follows her debut The Baby and sophomore effort Honey, was co-produced by Caleb Wright and Jake Luppen and co-written with Christian Lee Hutson and Raffaela.

“It’s easier to be what someone wants you to be if you give as little as possible,” Samia muses, and it’s a notion that gives new weight to the record’s title. Living up to an ideal also means leaving behind the messiness of our corporeal existence and becoming vacant; when you are merely an image, you can be Bloodless and perfect.

To accompany the announcement, Samia has shared the song “Bovine Excision,” named for unexplained cattle mutilations that have baffled people for centuries, but particularly since the 1960s. And although I’d qualify these strange deaths as overstated urban legends (Sarah Marshall’s You’re Wrong About episode is very enlightening on the subject), the nonetheless fascinating phenomenon takes on a symbolic significance on the lead single from Bloodless. Samia finds a strange kinship with these exsanguinated animals on the country-rock tune, whether it’s because she herself is losing blood (“Picking leeches off white underwear”) or wants to be just as anomalous as them (“I want to be untouchable” and later, “I want to be impossible”). “I was drawn to the phenomenon of bloodless cattle mutilation as a metaphor for self-extraction—this clinical pursuit of emptiness,” Samia says. The music video (dir. Sarah Ritter) itself transforms from a bucolic getaway at a remote backwoods cabin to something far eerier, invoking Blair Witch-esque imagery. 

Watch the video for “Bovine Excision” below. Further down, there’s also the album art for Bloodless and the tracklist.

Bloodless Album Artwork:

Bloodless Tracklist:

Biscuits Intro
Bovine Excision
Hole In A Frame
Lizard
Dare
Fair Game
Spine Oil
Craziest Person
Sacred
Carousel
Proof
North Poles
Pants

 
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