It's been five years since
Samia's debut. '
The Baby' introduced her diaristic tunings rife with granular detail and an abundance of dry wit soundtracked by a potent concoction of indie folk. 2023's '
Honey' doubled down on this formula while welcoming a more polished pop sound. But, on her third outing, '
Bloodless', Samia is splitting the difference and proving that growth doesn't mean sacrificing anything, least of all your foundations.
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Bovine Excision''s chorus rumbles between dark, off-kilter rhythms. '
Carousel' stop-starts its cacophonous ending, while '
Craziest Person' is a dissonant experimental sketch, and it's in these noisy waves that Samia's new era's confidence grows as she targets the idea of 'man' as an overarching unknown quantity of threat and annoyance. Next up, the country-tinges on '
Fair Game', and the weighty wooze of '
Lizard', prove 'Bloodless' is a wholly evolved version of Samia, one that plays with a new musical element that judders and collides with the bare-faced simplicity of her unfolding.
