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October 11, 2024: Victoria Canal has released a new single “15%” today from her forthcoming debut album Slowly, It Dawns, set for release on January 17, 2025 via Parlophone / Elektra. The track, co-written by Canal, EG White (Adele, Lana Del Rey, Sam Smith) and Jonny Lattimer (James Arthur, Haim, Ella Henderson), continues the narrative from Canal’s previously-released album singles. The sweet, flirtatious summer’s day of “June Baby” turns to night with the steamy and experimental “California Sober,” before the sun starts coming up with “Cake.” Then we arrive at the newest track “15%,” where Canal begins to overthink her words and actions in a state of existential dread.
“These days I can’t tell what the hell I’m seeing… thumb on the lens of my feelings,” Canal sings on the second chorus. “I’ve got 15% of the view. Can you fill me in, dude?”
Listen to “15%” HERE
Watch the live performance video
Canal’s forthcoming debut full-length album is the culmination of a lifetime of musical knowledge, experimentation and a fearless approach to her craft. The collection marks the start of 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.”
Crafted over the past three years and recorded across London and Los Angeles, the album encapsulates this sentiment both musically and lyrically. From the sunlit indie pop of “June Baby” to the Cuban-inflected rhythms of “California Sober,” and from the contemplative soundscapes of “Totally Fucking Fine” to the cinematic urgency of “Cake,” Canal showcases her remarkable range across 12 deeply 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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Canal is a guest vocalist on Coldplay’s new album ‘Moon Music,’ where she sings vocals on multiple tracks including “��” and “AETERNA.” Frontman Chris Martin was one of Canal’s earliest champions and invited her to perform with Coldplay during their record-breaking headline performance at Glastonbury over the summer.
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.
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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