BAMBI DUE NOVEMBER 8TH
East London’s Aziya announces her forthcoming mixtape BAMBI due out November 8th. BAMBI will include the previous offerings “party’s over,” “crush (tom verlaine),” and the recently shared “call my name (lux lisbon).” BAMBI will also feature an interlude from one of Aziya’s creative inspirations, Santigold. Alongside the mixtape announcement, Aziya shares the new confident and self-assured single “bbydoll,” which has a hint of rage in regards to forming relationships with men weaved with a sense of defiance and fortitude.
Speaking about “bbydoll,” Aziya shares, “I don’t wanna be someone’s plaything – I felt like that once, with someone I was with. There was one day I vividly remember asking myself why I was with a person like this in the first place, who was doing everything they could to make me feel inferior, how did I end up here? I ended up producing a song that felt like I was reclaiming the word “babydoll”. This is my bad b*tch anthem – it’s my ‘what would Chloe Sevigny, Bjork or Santigold do if they were treated badly by someone who didn’t see their worth? LEAVE’ soundtrack.”
BAMBI follows Aziya’s second EP LONELY CASTLES, which was released late last year. The four track project which included singles “atomic,” “chain” and the self-produced “wundagirl.” LONELY CASTLES possesses a wistful quality present in the greatest rock artists and was Aziya’s triumphant answer to internal and external pressures.
Aziya elaborates on the creation of her new mixtape BAMBI, stating, “I found that last year was a lot of firsts for me. I think I was learning to be comfortable – not just in the industry but in relationships too. I learnt a lot about myself and my boundaries last year. ‘BAMBI’ is the representation of how sometimes your niceness can be taken for granted, and that you need to overcome it and become a stronger version of that person.”
Throughout the summer, Aziya performed at various festivals including Bludfest, Lost Village, All Points East, and Reading & Leeds. Additionally, Aziya supported Canadian superstar thxsomch on tour with shows in Manchester, Glasgow and London.
Aziya
BAMBI
November 8, 2024
1. magdalene
2. party’s over
3. lose my light
4. crush
5. lose my light
6. call my name (lux lisbon)
7. bambi summit
8. bbydoll
9. santi said
10. bambi
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Since emerging with the alternative indie smarts of searing debut single “Slip!” in 2021, London artist Aziya has elevated herself from a promising newcomer into a rising star with a strong grip on exactly who and what she wants to present to the world. Having showcased an enviable mastery of the guitar since her earliest days posting riff-heavy, one-woman-band covers of everyone from PJ Harvey to Jimi Hendrix on TikTok (and gaining millions of likes, alongside praise from Grimes, H.E.R and more along the way), she’s spent the past three years adding more and more strings to her bow.
Across two EPs – 2021’s We Speak of Tides and last year’s LONELY CASTLES – Aziya has determinedly fleshed out her vision, leveling up her skills as a producer and bringing the “new wave-influenced, dark, post-punk world” that she loves to life in increasingly clear fashion. And now comes “party’s over”: the first single from a forthcoming project that marks her most fully-realised work yet. “I saw on LONELY CASTLES that people were really responding for the first time,” she says. “Before, people really loved the covers I was making, which was great. But now people aren’t going ‘What’s that Tame Impala song?’, they’re asking, ‘What’s that Aziya song?’”
Growing up in the sort of open-minded household that would play System of a Down, Santigold and The Stone Roses with equal enthusiasm, Aziya picked up a guitar aged 10 and started to pen her own material shortly after. After graduating school, Aziya found herself in sessions where her tastes and ideas were being ignored. “I remember leaving one particular session thinking, ‘I’m gonna get my guitar playing and producing to a point where I’m able to express myself as a musician the exact way I want to’,” she explains.
Since then, that ethos of working hard to make yourself undiminishable has been at the heart of her outlook. She describes We Speak of Tides as “me saying, ‘Hey guys, you might not think I’m going to make guitar music but that’s exactly what I’m going to do, and here are five different genres within guitar music that I’m going to dip my toe in to prepare you for what’s gonna come next’.” LONELY CASTLES, meanwhile, was a hands-on exercise from start to finish, “from the production to the creative to even distributing it I was involved in it”. “I didn’t have a life for a while, and I’m OK with that!” she laughs.
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