“Since the release of her debut album ‘The Baby’ in 2020, Samia has become known as a songwriter with a knack for the diaristic and the vulnerable; an artist who is profoundly relatable by being highly personal, distilling the complexities of young womanhood into lines that sear. Second record ‘Honey’, released in 2023, only reinforced that notion, infusing more dark humour into songs full of pain ”
“The New York musician’s third album may also be her best. The writing is richly human and gladly vulnerable, fearlessly interrogating what makes up a self.”
“The cover of every Samia album so far has seen its auteur obscuring herself more and more from the camera lens. On 2020's The Baby, she's centred in the frame, but avoiding eye contact; on 2023's Honey, she's further away, awash in blue lens flares and still not meeting our gaze. Fittingly, all of the colour is drained from the artwork for Bloodless, with a grainy greyscale Samia at an even great”
“On her flinty third album, the Minneapolis singer sharpens her storytelling, lacing deceptively bright folk pop with small, evocative details.”
“You can take 100 rising indie pop stars; none will quite match her destructive blade that cuts moments of beauty out of self-destructive tendencies, body image issues, family dynasty, aging, and, most often, raw reality. She opens 2023’s Honey by threatening murder. At many points, Bloodless, her third studio album, attempts to reconstruct this violent, acerbic demeanor, but doesn’t know what to ”
