Samia announces new LP ‘Bloodless,’ shares “Bovine Excision”

Samia revealed that she’d finished the follow-up to 2023’s Honey back in August, and now she’s officially announced Bloodless, due out on April 25 via Grand Jury. She worked on it with some regular collaborators, including co-producers Caleb Wright and Jake Luppen, and songwriting partners Christian Lee Hutson and Raffaela. See the cover art and tracklist below.

“I’ve spent the past two decades unintentionally conflating an abstract idea of men with my understanding of God,” Samia says. “The person I became in order to impress this imagined figure is inseparable from who I am today. A significant part of my personality was built around traits and behaviors I believed—whether through observation or hearsay—men would like. With this album, I’ve tried to confront that head-on.”

The first single is “Bovine Excision,” an immediately appealing indie rock track with evocative lyrics. “I was drawn to the phenomenon of bloodless cattle mutilation as a metaphor for self-extraction – this clinical pursuit of emptiness,” she says. Watch the video, directed by Sarah Ritter, below.