Bloodless – Samia (2025)

Bloodless – Samia (2025)

Samia’s vocal chops are on full display with her third studio release, Bloodless. This album highlights the incredible versatility of the American singer-songwriter, traversing a wide-range of the dreamier elements of indie music. She skillfully glides between arena rock, chillwave, country, and hypnogogic pop all with characteristic vocal flair. The production is crystal clear, impossibly clean, and the album is fortified by skillful musicianship. Tip to toe, it’s a lovely album and easy to have on rotation this summer.

Drifting between wakefulness and dreaming, real life dissolves into a surreal ether. In this liminal space, our personal foibles find easy acceptance, our eccentricities are assets rather than carefully managed liabilities, and tense relationships find easy salvation. These naïve daydreams are darkened by their impossibility, and perfection is its own curse after all.

Life, chaotic and unpredictable as it is, finds texture in our shortcomings and our relationships. Not all loose ends need to be tied, sometimes things just fray and that’s how it goes. But liminal space is nowhere to build a home. Life must go on, despite the messes we leave along the way, we need to carry forward. Boundaries need to be drawn: with the past, with others, and with different versions of ourselves.

It’s work, hard work, but it doesn’t need to be so bad. There’s humor in our irrational behavior and laughter to be found in the struggle. Sure, we’re a mess, but at least we’re in good company.