Samia’s third album, Bloodless, sounds as if someone’s opened a nearby window, allowing for a gush of fresh air to carry Samia Finnerty’s voice into the skies. The 28-year-old Minneapolis-based singer-songwriter’s follow-up to 2023’s Honey feels lithe and buoyant even at its most emotionally weighty. At times—the slinky “Lizard”, the echo-laden swell of “Sacred”, the thicket of woodwinds and vocals that run through closing track “Pants”—Samia recalls the ethereal New Wave of British pop-rock phenom The Japanese House, or the timeless bounce of Fleetwood Mac. At the centre of such gestures is Samia’s close-to-the-bone lyricism, which continues to convey her pitch-perfect sly humour; atop the stormy strums and electronic frissons of “North Poles”, she wraps her bell-clear voice around evocations of “spyware lipstick” and fistfuls of natural wine before lobbing a grenade of reflection at the listener’s feet: “When you see yourself in someone/How can you look at them?”