![]() ![]() Indeed, even as Victoria’s lyrics feel weighted by a Southern heaviness that is so often smothering, the music is also buoyed by rhythm and melody that illuminate the best of what this region has to offer. Put simply, it is the musical embodiment of the relationship that so many people, especially Black women, have with the South. It is equal parts historical montage and modern prophesy, dark and light, love and loathing. Sonically, A Southern Gothic is full of frequent juxtaposition. It has been the case through her first two albums - 2016’s Beyond the Bloodhounds and 2019’s Silences - and it remains so for third full-length effort, A Southern Gothic. It is no surprise, then, that stories of the South find their way into her music, into the lyrics she pens and the chords she plays. Adia Victoria is a daughter of the South, a born and bred South Carolinian who now makes her home in Nashville, Tennessee.
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