April 22, 2025, Minneapolis-based singer and songwriter Samia will release her breathtaking third album, Bloodless, on Friday. Today she shares one final preview of the record before it’s out in its entirety: Carousel. 

What starts as a delicate, acoustic-driven song with twinkling synths, “Carousel” builds into a euphoric wall of sound.

“‘Carousel’ is a shadow of a long song – it’s about spinning your wheels, and being afraid to make someone’s life less beautiful if you’re in it,” Samia says.  

Along with the release of “Carousel,” Samia has released an official music video. All of the music videos Samia has released for Bloodless, in collaboration with director Sarah Ritter, have one thing in common: the fear of oneself. With Samia at the center as both the protagonist and antagonist, the videos depict common nightmares.  For the indoor pool horror “Carousel,” Ritter drew inspiration from both an episode of “Are You Afraid of the Dark?,” entitled “Dead Man’s Float,” as well as an episode of “The Twilight Zone,” called “Mirror Image.”

In her new album Bloodless, out this Friday, April 25, Samia seeks comfort in absence, and explores the allure of existing as fantasy. Drawing inspiration from unsolved mysteries – inexplicable cattle mutilations, the presence of God, the impossibility of femininity – she examines how shadows can loom larger than their source. 

 “I noticed a pattern in my life of wanting to live up to the person I became in someone’s head; you become a lot bigger with distance,” says Samia.

Bloodless, which shifts seamlessly from sparse folk to sweeping indie-pop epics, adorned with haunting harmonies and spectral imagery, seeks a path through that space between void and flesh-and-blood presence.