Victoria Canal Announces Debut Album Slowly, It Dawns

Listen To New Single ‘Cake’ HERE

September 13, 2024: Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Victoria Canal today announces her long awaited debut album, Slowly, It Dawns, out January 17, 2025 via Parlophone Records. The “rising star” (New Yorker) has unveiled a 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 steamy and experimental “California Sober” into the early hours of the next morning where we arrive with “Cake,” hiding in the excesses of escapism.

"It’s 6am, you’re still going on a night out and everything’s gone a little too wonky… “ says Canal of the track. “‘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."

Listen to "Cake"

The culmination of a lifetime of musical knowledge, experimentation and a fearless approach to her craft, Canal’s debut full-length album marks a new chapter: a moment of newfound clarity about the artist she wants to be. Her 2022 EP Elegy found her working through grief, while 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 apologize for it.”  

Slowly, It Dawns finds Canal embarking on a path that mirrors the unraveling 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 an exclusive limited edition signed poster as well as a CD zine via the official store.

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Following her second IVOR win earlier this Summer and a surprise appearance with Coldplay during their Glastonbury Festival headline performance, Canal announced a worldwide headline tour, spanning the UK, Europe and North America. The “Just What I Needed” tour kicks off September 16 in Milwaukee, WI, for a three week run, before heading overseas for performances in Barcelona, Lisbon, Amsterdam, Brussels, Berlin, Paris, London and more. Please see a full list of tour dates below and visit https://www.victoriacanal.com/tour for tickets. 

Slowly, It Dawns tracklist

June Baby

Talk

California Sober

Cake

15%

Vauxhall

How Can I Be A Person?

Totally Fucking Fine

Hollow

Barely

Black Swan

swan song

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. 

Victoria Canal 2024 Live Dates

September 16 - Milwaukee, WI - Vivarium

September 17 - Evanston, IL, Space

September 19 - Columbus, OH - The Basement

September 21 - Richmond, VA - Iron Blossom Festival 

September 23 - Asheville, NC - The Grey Eagle 

September 24 - Atlanta, GA - Vinyl 

September 25 - Nashville, TN - 3rd and Lindsley 

September 27 - Lake Orion, MI - 20 Front Street 

September 29 - Cleveland, OH - Beachland Tavern

September 30 - Pittsburgh, PA - Stage AE * 

October 2 - Madison, WI - Sylvee * 

October 3 - St. Paul, MN - Palace Theatre * 

October 4 - Des Moines, IA - Val Air Ballroom *

October 9 - Barcelona, Spain - La Nau

October 10 - Madrid, Spain - Conde Duque 

October 12 - Lisbon, Portugal - Musicbox Lisboa 

October 13 - Porto, Portugal - Porto Mouco

October 19 - Manchester, UK - The Deaf Institute 

October 21 - Birmingham, UK - O2 Institute 3 

October 24 - London, UK - EartH Theatre 

October 26 - Bristol, UK - Strange Brew 

October 28 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Tolhuistuin

October 31 - Brussels, Belgium - AB Club 

November 2 - Cologne, Germany - Yuca 

November 3 - Berlin, Germany - Frannz Club

November 5 -  Hamburg, Germany - Nochtspeicher 

November 9 -  La Roche sur Yon, France - Le Quai M

November 10 - Bordeaux, France - Le Rocher De Palmer 

November 12 - Paris, France - La Boule Noire

November 13 - Lille, France - La Bulle Café

November 14 - Rouen, France - Le 106

November 17 - Mexico City, MX - Corona Capital

* Supporting Sammy Rae & Friends

Recent Praise for Victoria Canal

“Canal’s ascendant career is built on her ability to unflinchingly capture feelings… she seems on the brink of something bigger.” - The New Yorker 

“Perceptive, unflinching songs… as the world wakes up to her many talents.” - The Observer

"Her piano playing is mesmerizing." - The Times

“Her gentle and ruminative form of songwriting is finally getting the recognition it deserves.” - i-D

“A tender blend of goosebump-inducing balladry akin to the kind of cataclysmic intensity of artists like Phoebe Bridgers or Holly Humberstone." - NME

 “A fearless freedom of expression… takes listeners to a place where, governed by a blustering beat, they can close their eyes, dance, and fantasize.” - Ones To Watch

“Beautiful.” - Attitude Magazine, Pride Icon Award winner

“WELL WELL represents her at her most vulnerable and her most brave.” - Gay Times

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