Victoria Canal announces debut album ‘Slowly, It Dawns’ with simmering single ‘Cake’

Victoria Canal has announced her forthcoming debut album ‘Slowly, It Dawns’ with a simmering new single ‘Cake’ – listen to it below.

The Spanish-American singer took to Instagram to share the news, announcing her debut album ‘Slowly, It Dawns’. The record is set to be released next year on January 17 via Parlophone Records.

On social media, Canal shared: “Whew. This is truly the culmination of my life’s work to date (super chill! i’m totally fine!) and by far the most ambitious project I’ve ever taken on, emotionally, artistically, spiritually.”

Saying that the album “documents the natural and continuous unraveling of life, and also its cyclical nature,” she continued: “There’s a consequence of diving into things fully, obsessively: you either find shining treasure, wildly fail, or come out somewhere in between – in any outcome, you learn and grow, eternally watering the flower that is “self”.”

“Thank you for being with me on this journey so far. Can’t wait to finally hand this over to you tenderly, bravely.”

Canal went on to release the debaucherous song ‘Cake’, describing the setting of the song as: “It’s 6am, you’re still going on a night out and everything’s gone a little too wonky… “Cake” is the bottled up feeling of dreading (and therefore adamantly avoiding) going back to adult responsibilities, and indeed the crushing weight of the world. It’s the desperate desire to hold onto the escape just a little bit longer, even as it starts to go sour.”

Take a listen to ‘Cake’ and see the album’s tracklist further down:

Victoria Canal’s ‘Slowly, It Dawns’ tracklist is:

‘June Baby’
‘Talk’
‘California Sober’
‘Cake’
‘15%’
‘Vauxhall’
‘How Can I Be A Person?’
‘Totally Fucking Fine’
‘Hollow’
‘Barely’
‘Black Swan’
‘swan song’

NME profiled the singer in September for our Breakout series last year, where she spoke of Chris Martin and his support for her song ‘swan song’. The Coldplay frontman hailed the track as one of the “best songs ever written“.

Speaking to NME, Canal said: “There’s a very specific feeling that comes with your idol recognising you as anything worthy of attention. I’m still pretty bewildered by the fact that he knows I exist, let alone that he will send me encouraging texts when I’m about to do a show being like, ‘You have everything you need inside of you, focus on the fans, they love you, you love them, prioritise that connection’.

“He’s just always about connection and gratitude, and being in the present, and he has such a love for music. I don’t think I know anyone else that has a more vast knowledge of music, and a greater interest in it after all these years.”

Victoria Canal will shortly embark on a number of shows later this year, where she will support Sammy Rae & The Friends along with her own UK/EU headline shows. See all dates below; get tickets for any US dates here and UK/EU dates here:

Victoria Canal’s 2024 live dates are:

SEPTEMBER
16 – Vivarium – Milwaukee, WI, USA
17 – Space – Evanston, IL, USA
19 – The Basement – Columbus, OH, USA
21 – Iron Blossom Festival – Richmond, VA, USA
23 – The Grey Eagle – Asheville, NC, USA
24 – Vinyl – Atlanta, GA, USA
25 – 3rd and Lindsley – Nashville, TN, USA
27 – 20 Front Street – Lake Orion, MI, USA
29 – Beachland Tavern – Cleveland, OH, USA
30 – Stage AE – Pittsburgh, PA, USA *

OCTOBER
2 – Sylvee – Madison, WI, USA *
3 – Palace Theatre – St. Paul, MN, USA *
4 – Val Air Ballroom – Des Moines, IA, USA *
9 – La Nau – Barcelona, Spain
10 – Conde Duque – Madrid, Spain
12 – Musicbox Lisboa – Lisbon, Portugal
13 – Porto Mouco – Porto, Portugal
19 – The Deaf Institute – Manchester, UK
21 – O2 Institute 3 – Birmingham, UK
24 – EartH Theatre – London, UK
26 – Strange Brew – Bristol, UK
28 – Tolhuistuin – Amsterdam, Netherlands
31 – AB Club – Brussels, Belgium

NOVEMBER
2 – Yuca – Cologne, Germany
3 – Frannz Club – Berlin, Germany
5 – Nochtspeicher – Hamburg, Germany
9 – Le Quai M – La Roche sur Yon, France
10 – Le Rocher De Palmer – Bordeaux, France
12 – La Boule Noire – Paris, France
13 – La Bulle Café – Lille, France
14 – Le 106 – Rouen, France

* supporting Sammy Rae & The Friends

In other news, Victoria Canal has responded to tabloid Tom Cruise dating rumours: “I’m deceased”.