Victoria Canal’s highly anticipated debut album, ‘Slowly, It Dawns,’ is set for release on January 17, 2025, via Parlophone Records/Elektra. Announced in September the album is available for pre-order on Canal’s website.

Much of the album is set to be made up of singles such as ‘June Baby,‘ ‘California Sober,’ and ‘Cake,’ which have already garnered attention for their introspective lyrics and innovative soundscapes. Canal has collaborated with the likes of Låpsley, Jonny Lattimer, Kevin Farzad and Eg White to produce the album.

“The title speaks to the sun rising, and I feel it’s emblematic of how you feel when you are growing up,” said Canal. “In your adolescence, everything is a bit hazy and wobbly and you don’t really know what’s going on. Then as you get older, clarity sets in. The album goes from being very young and naive, loud and overconfident, to quite introspective, wise and surrendered. It gets more complex and possibly more wounded or brooding.”

Canal, the German born Spanish American musician, is a name you’ll want to remember—if you haven’t already felt her ripple through the industry. In 2023, she snagged the Rising Star award at the Ivor Novello Awards, a nod from the songwriting elite that signals that, despite only having 100,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, she is about to bloom into the wider cultural consciousness.

Alongside the Novello Award she has also won the admiration of Coldplay singer Chris Martin, who has heralded her ‘swan song‘ from 2022’s ‘Elegy’ EP as  “one of the best songs ever written.” Its unsurprising high praise, with smoky tones and an uncanny ability to shift from delicate whispers to powerful crescendos, she makes every lyric feel like a secret she’s trusting you with.

Born with one arm shorter than the other due to amniotic band syndrome, Canal has never let anything—even physics—stand in her way. She has performed at the 30 year anniversary of ‘Later…with Jules Holland‘ and watching her play piano in these live performances with such dexterity and emotion feels like witnessing a someone weaving magic into music, taking something which is ostensibly a weakness and harnessing it into a unique strength.

Canal’s music defies easy categorisation, which is part of its allure. She weaves indie pop, soulful balladry, and pop rock into a tapestry that feels both nostalgic and Gen-Z. You can hear whispers of John Mayer’s emotional storytelling and Gavin DeGraw’s bluesy grit in her sound, but there’s an electricity uniquely hers—a kind of ambiguous emotional vulnerability to her voice reminiscent of Billie Eilish that knocks you sideways and leaves you coming back for more. As her Spotify profile states: ‘here is my soul hope u like it.’ Commenting on the deeply emotive nature of her music she has noted the introspection required to produce these songs, “These days I’m writing mostly to confront things about myself in order to gain more of an understanding and acceptance of them”