Adia Victoria has released a new EP, How It Feels, that features four tracks – three covers and one original – all sung in French. Aida’s tour kicks off March 9 in Amines, France.

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.”

Adia Victoria
How It Feels
Tracklisting

1. “Laissez Tomber Les Filles” (written by Serge Gainsbourg, popularized by France Gall)
2. “Ça a Raté” (Francoise Hardy)
3. “Parlez Moi De Lui (Francoise Hardy)
4. “You Know How It Feels” (Adia Victoria)

ADIA VICTORIA ON TOUR

March 9 – Amiens, France – Lune Des Pirates
March 10 – Zurich, Switzerland -Rote Fabrik Clubraum
March 11 – Lyon, France – Marche Gare
March 13 – Paris, France – Le Pop Up du Label
March 14 – London, UK – The Lexington
March 15 – Amsterdam, The Netherlands – Paradiso
March 17 – Haldern, Germany – Haldern Pop Bar
July 16 – Louisville, KY – Forecastle Festival