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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:
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”.
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SOPHIE has been paid tribute by Google Doodle to coincide with what would’ve been her birthday today (September 17).
The hyperpop pioneer and PC Music affiliate (full name Sophie Xeon) tragically passed away on January 30, 2021 aged 34 following her accidental fall from a three storey building in Athens.
Now, the musician has been honoured by Google Doodle with a short video for her 38th birthday. Soundtracked by ‘Immaterial’, taken from her debut album ‘Oil Of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides‘, the clip depicts various portraits of SOPHIE and her Monomachine, the synthesiser she used to make her inimitable and evocative sounds from.
In the caption for the video, Google wrote: “This video Doodle celebrates the birthday of Scottish musician, producer, and DJ Sophie Xeon, who is remembered for her acclaimed experimental pop and electronic music.”
Take a look at the video below:
Recently, the eponymous posthumous album for the producer was announced in June this year. It will be released September 27 via Transgressive Records and Future Classic, with the help of her brother and long-time studio manager Benny Long.
Speaking about the forthcoming album in a statement, SOPHIE’s family wrote: “When we, Sophie’s family, took our first steps towards bringing this project to fruition we contacted the dear friends with whom she envisioned the album. We wrote, ‘We have been finding comfort in the music Sophie left us, it is a gift that we truly cherish as we try to find a way forward, with Sophie forever at the centre of our worlds’.
“Sophie didn’t often speak publicly of her private life, preferring to put everything she wanted to articulate in her music. It feels only right to share with the world the music she hoped to release, in the belief that we can all connect with her in this, the form she loved most.”
The statement concluded: “Sophie gave all of herself to her music. It’s here that she can always be found.”
So far, four singles from the record have been previewed, including ‘Reason Why (ft. Kim Petras)’, ‘Berlin Nightmare (ft. Evita Manji)’, ‘One More Time‘ and ‘Exhilarate (ft. Bibi Bourelly)’.
In other news, Sade will release her first new music in years as part of new transgender awareness compilation project alongside a SOPHIE cover courtesy of Moses Sumney.
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