CANAL VICTORIA – SLOWLY IT DAWNS CD

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Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Victoria Canal today announces her long awaited debut album, Slowly, It Dawns, out Friday 17th January 2025 via Parlophone Records.

She also shares new single ‘Cake’, which continues the worldbuilding narrative of the album’s singles so far: the sweet, flirtatious summer’s day of ‘June Baby’, which turns to night with the sweaty and experimental ‘California Sober’ into the early hours of the next morning where we arrive with ‘Cake’, hiding in the excesses of escapism.

Of the track, Victoria shares: “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.”

The culmination of a lifetime of musical knowledge, experimentation and a fearless approach to her craft, Canal’s debut album marks a new chapter: a moment of newfound clarity about the artist she wants to be. Where 2022 EP Elegy found her working through grief, 2023’s WELL WELL was the “wounded rebirth” that inevitably followed. With Slowly, It Dawns, she’s ready to step into the truest version of herself. “I’m trying to be honest and unapologetic about what I want to put out there, whether it’s wholesome, sexy, loud, quiet, if I’m being femme or masc; I don’t want to apologise for it.”

Slowly, It Dawns finds Canal embarking on a path that mirrors the unravelling of the human experience. “Life does feel like the sun rising,” she shares of the record’s evocative title. “You come into the world with very little clarity on the way things are – everything’s a little hazy and confusing. Then, as you get older, your eyes adjust to what life is; it gets messy and complicated, then spiritual and expansive.”

Written over the course of the past three years and recorded between London and Los Angeles, the album captures this sentiment as much musically as it does lyrically. From the sun-kissed indie pop of ‘June Baby’ and cuban-inflected sizzle of ‘California Sober’, to the meditative instrumentals of ‘Totally Fucking Fine’ and the cinematic desperation of ‘Cake’, Canal’s stunning range is on full display across 12 revealing tracks.

Slowly, It Dawns will be available in digital and physical formats including CD and transparent vinyl. Fans can also purchase the vinyl with exclusive limited edition signed poster as well as a CD zine via the official store.

Canal will shortly embark on her worldwide headline tour, spanning the UK, Europe and North America through the Autumn. She will headline London’s EartH Theatre on Thursday 24th October. Tickets for the ‘Just What I Needed’ world tour are on sale now, see below for full list of dates. Her headline run follows a surprise appearance with Coldplay during their Glastonbury Festival headline performance, invited by Chris Martin to play piano and sing on ‘Paradise’.

 

About Victoria Canal:

26 year-old Spanish-American singer, songwriter and producer Victoria Canal makes soul-stirring, emotive pop music. Canal says her international upbringing fostered her love for a nomadic life in music. A proud ‘third culture kid,’ she lived everywhere from Shanghai, Tokyo, Amsterdam, London, and Dubai to Atlanta, New York, and Forth Worth, and is proud of her identity as a queer, disabled, mixed-heritage woman.

Canal is the recipient of two Ivor Novello Awards, recognising her songwriting talent, an Attitude Pride award and an Imagen Award nomination for her television acting debut in acclaimed Apple TV+ anthology series Little America.

In 2022 Canal released her EP Elegy, which delicately dealt with themes of grief and death, and featured the single ‘swan song’, which Chris Martin of Coldplay hailed as ‘one of the best songs ever written’ and was performed live on Later… with Jools Holland, appearing alongside the likes of Self Esteem and The 1975.

Her Ivor Novello Award winning sister song ‘Black Swan’ features on her 2023 EP WELL WELL, which found Canal turning the lens back on herself to look inwards with courage and vulnerability. The singles ‘Shape’ and ‘She Walks In’ were the first time she’d shared on the themes of body image and body dysmorphia, pertaining in part to her limb difference, in turn receiving acclaim from The New Yorker, The Observer, The Times, NME, BBC Radio 1 and more.

Years in the making, Canal has been busy writing and recording her debut album, pushing her sonic boundaries to create her most wide reaching and expressive music to date. Canal has toured worldwide and is set to play her biggest run of headline shows in late 2024.