Slowly, It Dawns (Limited) (Transparent Vinyl)

LPA

1. June Baby
2. Talk
3. California Sober
4. Cake
5. 15%
6. Vauxhall

LPB

1. How Can I Be A Person?
2. Totally Fucking Fine
3. Hollow
4. Barely
5. Black Swan
6. Swan Song

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’.