Bloodless
Samia’s third album, *Bloodless*, sounds as if someone’s opened a nearby window, allowing for a gush of fresh air to carry Samia Finnerty’s voice into the skies. The 28-year-old Minneapolis-based singer-songwriter’s follow-up to 2023’s *Honey* feels lithe and buoyant even at its most emotionally weighty. At times—the slinky “Lizard,” the echo-laden swell of “Sacred,” the thicket of woodwinds and vocals that run through closing track “Pants”—Samia recalls the ethereal New Wave of British pop-rock phenom The Japanese House, or the timeless bounce of Fleetwood Mac. At the center of such gestures is Samia’s close-to-the-bone lyricism, which continues to convey her pitch-perfect sly humor; atop the stormy strums and electronic frissons of “North Poles,” she wraps her bell-clear voice around evocations of “spyware lipstick” and fistfuls of natural wine before lobbing a grenade of reflection at the listener’s feet: “When you see yourself in someone/How can you look at them?”
An album with this much going on could easily collapse under its own weight, but Samia artist thrives in the middle of lofty topics and idea-stuffed songs
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Samia is on the move. In the period following her exceptional 2023 breakout ‘Honey’ the songwriter has laid down new roots, swapping Nashville for
Samia’s ‘Bloodless’ is transformation by scalpel, told in songs that are messy, defiant, and unflinchingly honest.
Bloodless by Samia album review by Beau Goodwin for Northern Transmissions. The singer/songwriter's LP drops on April 25th via Grand Jury