Aziya Enters The New Year With "I'm in love, believe it"

UK newcomer Aziya enters the year with "i'm in love, believe it", which comes off the back of a sold out Australian tour opening for Lola Young last week. Utilising a stripped back production Aziya's tender yet masterful vocals are on full display with the repeating chorus of the single's title ending the song with a beautifully simple and clear message from the young rock star. Listen HERE.

"i'm in love, believe it" is her first release since her incredible 10 track mixtape BAMBI, which was shared with the world in November last year. It marks a hopeful new mindset that sees Aziya find the love and understanding that she was searching for on BAMBI.

Who would have thought it - love finally found me. I'm in love, I'm terrified and I wrote a song about it." she says of the new single. 

Aziya has had an incredible past year performing at Bludfest, Pitchfork festival, Dot To Dot, Lost Village, All Points East, Reading & Leeds, as well as UK support slots with Canadian superstar thxsomch & British pop sensation Griff which she features on the live version of "Last Night Mascara". 

In November 2024, Aziya dropped the mixtape BAMBI, a 10 track record that chronicles the emotional turmoil of finding freedom. As well as 6 full length tracks there are 4 musical and spoken word interludes that help to guide the message of the project. The four interludes are, "love you, bye", "lose my light", "bambi summit" & "santi said", the last features one of her musical inspirations, Santigold, who has been somewhat of a mentor to Aziya on this latest project.

The eponymous single 'bambi', arrived alongside a frenetic visual directed by DEAD HORSES, James Topley and Ivo Beckett, featuring multi-layered effects of storms and laden with religious iconography. In the video Aziya strikes a frenzied pace as a righteous warrior armoured in a plaid skirt and sporting her signature bangs.

The project is Aziya's multi-layered exploration of fragility and prevailing emotional strength. She dissects her own experience with men and her treatment at their hands. Although inspired by her interactions with the opposite sex, BAMBI focuses on Aziya's relationship with herself and how she both tries and yearns to break away from the ever present patriarchal forces. BAMBI represents a part of herself that needs protecting. It is a part of her that needs to be nurtured, reassured and calmed before she is able to set it aside and grow beyond its instinctual reaction. 

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.