Adia Victoria Releases New EP

Adia Victoria has released a new EP. How It Feels consist of three covers and once original all sung in French. Check out her cover of "Laissez Tomber Les Filles" below. How It Feels can be picked up HERE.

Adia notes, "I wanted this EP to take on a more eerie feel. Instead of the imagined dream pop girl wishing for her man to come home I reimagined the lyrics as sung by a lover scorned but still love sick and obsessed. I wanted to keep the timeless feel of these songs while breathing into them a bit of modernity; sharpen the edges a bit. What if 'Parlez Moi de Lui' were more of a hazey, trip out love letter from a woman still haunted by lost love. What if her in deranged mind her man still danced in and out of sight, just out of touch? I wanted to inject 'Laissez Tomber Les Filles' with a bit of the anger and danger I felt as a new political era descended on our country. This session would prove to be therapeutic in channeling my frustration with the current political landscape into powerful songs sung by iconic, emotional women. This EP was a way express all these feelings in a tangible way. There is so much emotionality to women that is often policed. This project gave me the chance to shake off those restrictions, free myself from my own mother tongue and speak in universal themes that flow beyond the borders of language."

Track List

• "Laissez Tomber Les Filles" (written by Serge Gainsbourg, popularized by France Gall)
• "Ça a Raté" (Francoise Hardy)
• "Parlez Moi De Lui (Francoise Hardy)
• "You Know How It Feels" (Adia Victoria)

Adia Victoria Releases New Video

Today we have for you "Dead Eyes" from Adia Victoria. The clip was directed by Alex Bittan and is from her recently released album, Beyond The Bloodhounds. Check it out below.

Adia Victoria will be at Mercury Lounge this Thursday, May 19. Doors are at 6:30PM. Tickets are $10 adv / $12 dos, get them HERE.

Adia Victoria released her new album Beyond The Bloodhounds on May 13. You can pick it up HERE.

Adia Victoria Set To Release New Album + Tour Dates

Adia Victoria is set to release her debut album, Beyond The Bloodhounds on May 13 via Canvasback Records. This is my new favorite album. 

Favorite tracks from the album are … "Out of Love" has been on repeat, "And Then You Die", "Stuck In The South" and "Mortimer's Blues".

Adia Victoria is hitting the road. There will be a stop in New York at Mercury Lounge on May 19. Tickets will cost you $10 adv / $12 dos…get them HERE. Doors are at 6:30PM. See below for a list of dates.

You can pre-order Beyond The Bloodhounds HERE.

Produced by Roger Moutenot (Yo La Tengo, Sleater Kinney) and the artist herself, recorded at Nashville, Tennessee's Haptown Studios, Beyond the Bloodhounds features the indelible lyrics, voice, and guitar solos of Adia Victoria along with a band of talented musicians including Tiffany Minton (Drums), Alex Caress (keys), Mason Hickman (guitar), and Jason Harris (bass). She recalls, "the studio is a Music City treasure. It used to be a car repair shop. You walk in and there are no windows. It's dark and moody. It feels like walking into the mind." 

The result of a lifetime of introspection and a younger self marked by silent observation, Adia Victoria's Beyond the Bloodhounds was three active, recording years in the making. The title pays homage to a line in Harriet Jacobs' "Narrative in the Life of a Slave Girl." 

Ultimately,Victoria's debut album is more both/and, than either/or. The complexity of her Southern, barrel-aged roots and world traveling, bookworm woman ways will lure you out of the status quo. 

Tour Dates

• 5/15 - Atlanta, GA - Shakey Knees Festival
• 5/17 - Washington, DC - DC9
• 5/19 - New York City, NY - Mercury Lounge
• 5/21 - Cambridge, MA - Lizard Lounge
• 5/27 - Birmingham, AL - The Syndicate
• 5/28 - New Orleans, LA - Gasa Gasa
• 5/29 -Houston, TX - Memorial Day Blowout : White Oak Music Hall/Outside Lawn
• 5/31- Austin, TX - Stubb's BBQ Inside
• 6/1 - Dallas, TX - Three Links
• 6/3 -Taos, NM - Music on the Mesa
• 6/4 - Tucson, AZ - Club Congress
• 6/5 - San Diego, CA - Casbah
• 6/7 - Los Angeles, CA - The Resident
• 6/8 - San Francisco, CA - Bottom of The Hill
• 6/10 - Portland, OR - Bunk Bar
• 6/11 - Seattle, WA - Sunset Tavern
• 6/12 - Vancouver, BC - Cobalt
• 6/15 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th St. Entry
• 6/16 - Madison, WI - Frequency
• 06/18 - Detroit, MI - Lager House
• 6/19 - Pittsburgh, PA - Brillobox
• 6/28 - Denver Colorado - Baker Neighborhood
• 6/29 - Charlotte, NC - Double Door Inn
• 6/30 - Raleigh, NC - Kings
• 7/1 - Knoxville, TN - Pilot Light
• 7/22-23 - Calgary, AB CANADA - Calgary Folk Festival
• 7/24 - Edmonton, AB CANADA - Interstellar Rodeo
• 7/28 - Kansas City, MO - Riot Room
• 7/31 - Denver, CO - Underground Music Showcase
• 8/2 - Salt Lake City, UT -Kilby Court
• 8/3 - Boise, ID - Nerolux
• 8/4-6 Happy Valley, OR - Pickathon Festival
• 8/8 - Bozeman, MT - Live From the Divide
• 8/11 - Milwaukee, WI - Club Garibaldi
• 8/12 - Champaign, IL - The Accord

Upcoming: Adia Victoria at Mercury Lounge, 5/19 + New Album

Nashville based Adia Victoria will be making a stop in New York at Mercury Lounge on May 19. See below for more details and her website for a list of tour dates.

Adia Victoria is scheduled to release her new album, Beyond The Bloodhounds, May 13.  You can pre-order the album HERE.

Adia Victoria

Thursday, May 19

Mercury Lounge

217 E Houston Street

New York, NY

Doors: 6:30PM

Tickets: $10 adv / $12 dos

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