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| Released | April 25, 2025 | |||
| Length | 40:26 | |||
| Label | Grand Jury Music | |||
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Bloodless is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter and musician Samia. It was released on April 25, 2025, by Grand Jury Music in vinyl, CD and digital formats. It features five singles released between January and March 2025, titled "Bovine Excision", "Lizard", "Hole in a Frame", "Pants", and "Carousel".
Co-produced by Caleb Wright and Jake Luppen, Bloodless consists of thirteen songs with a total runtime of approximately forty minutes. Samia released the first single, "Bovine Excision", on January 14, 2025, alongside a music video. [1] On February 18, 2025, the second single of the album, "Lizard", was released. [2] Samia released the third and fourth singles of the album, "Hole in a Frame" and "Pants", together on March 25, 2025. [3] The final single of the album was "Carousel", which was released on April 22, 2025, together with a music video directed by Sarah Ritter, who also directed the music videos for the previous singles. [4] [1]
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AnyDecentMusic? | 8.3/10 [5] |
| Metacritic | 79/100 [6] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [7] |
| Clash | [8] |
| DIY | [9] |
| Dork | [10] |
| Exclaim! | [11] |
| NME | [12] |
| Paste | 8.8/10 [13] |
| Slant | [14] |
| Under the Radar | 8.5/10 [15] |
Bloodless received favorable critical reception from multiple publications, averaging at eighty percent. The lowest rating was given by AllMusic, which described the album as "a record that takes a similarly diverse approach to style – country-rock, ambient pop, indie rock, singer/songwriter folk, and more – but instead often plops several of them into the same song, with curious results." [7]
Indie music website Stereogum referred to Bloodless as "an album that suggests the more you think you've got her pinned down, the more she'll surprise you," [16] and British culture website NME remarked, "Impressively, though, Samia sorts Bloodless into something that not only keeps it together but thrives on its complexities and intricacies." [12]
It was described as "Samia's most fleshed-out project with all of her components" by Dork Magazine , [10] and "a gruesome, precise, and poetic act of self-surgery" by Slant Magazine . [14] DIY Magazine gave the album a rating of four and a half stars, and noted about the production, that it "mostly takes a no-frills approach, often just vocal and acoustic guitar lending itself to the album's overall message; if you give less of yourself, you'll appear bigger." [9]
Paste described Bloodless as "both wayward and painfully sharp, its songs potent with matter-of-fact lines that cut to the heart of it all without ever spelling anything out," [13] and Under the Radar referred to it as "angrier, stranger, and more ambitious—less a diary and more a myth, refracted through elliptical metaphors, religious allusions, and a theatrical distance that skillfully enhances the album's raw intimacy," in comparison with Samia's 2023 album, Honey. [15] On a ten-point scale, Paste, Under the Radar, Clash and Exclaim! each gave the album a rating between eight and nine. [13] [15] [11] [8]
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Biscuits Intro" | 0:15 |
| 2. | "Bovine Excision" | 2:53 |
| 3. | "Hole in a Frame" | 3:03 |
| 4. | "Lizard" | 3:20 |
| 5. | "Dare" | 3:21 |
| 6. | "Fair Game" | 2:34 |
| 7. | "Spine Oil" | 3:23 |
| 8. | "Craziest Person" | 1:05 |
| 9. | "Sacred" | 2:37 |
| 10. | "Carousel" | 3:27 |
| 11. | "Proof" | 4:14 |
| 12. | "North Poles" | 4:11 |
| 13. | "Pants" | 6:03 |
| Total length: | 40:26 | |
Credits for Bloodless adapted from Bandcamp
| Chart (2025) | Peak position |
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| Scottish Albums (OCC) [17] | 91 |