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After wrapping up a successful UK and European tour, musician, singer, and songwriter A.A. WILLIAMS, known for her atmospheric, emotionally charged music, returns with her new single “Hold It Together” taken from her newly announced forthcoming album Solstice, due for release on 5th June via RPM. Pre-orders for the album open on April 22nd.
“Hold It Together” explores the fragile tension between resilience and internal collapse. With her characteristic blend of haunting atmosphere, immersive sound and emotional intensity, the London-based artist captures the experience of carrying deep feeling while presenting calm on the surface.
Speaking about the song, A.A. WILLIAMSexplains:
“Silence exists where you long for answers, a bleak fragility that you daren’t disturb. Where beauty stood only the faintest glow remains, afraid of smothering it you shrink into a mould of your own making. Your edges dulled, your features disappearing, you put on that brave face not knowing whether you do it to protect others or yourself. You smile, you carry on, feeling everything, showing nothing.”
The track unfolds with quiet intensity, balancing vulnerability and restraint while drawing listeners into its immersive and emotionally rich soundscape.
Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQiK1M8g7Ow
Solstice finds A.A. WILLIAMS standing at the threshold between shadow and renewal, shaping songs that feel carved from storms and starlight. Known for her haunting vocals, cinematic dynamics and emotional clarity, Williams expands her sonic world with music that moves like a ritual through shifting seasons. Moments of stark intimacy open into surging crescendos as guitars swell and crash like gathering weather, anchored by a formidable sense of weight and scale. Strings glow with fragile warmth before giving way to waves of heavy distortion and all-encompassing catharsis, while her voice rises from quiet confession to commanding intensity. Drawn from years of global touring, acclaimed collaborations and boundary-pushing reinterpretations, Solstice captures an artist in full command of her craft. The album is intimate yet immense, delicate yet thunderous — guiding listeners through darkness with both vulnerability and force toward a distant, resolute dawn.
See A.A. WILLIAMS performing live:
09/05 – DK Copenhagen, A Colossal Weekend
23/05 – DE Leipzig, Wave Gotik Treffen
03/06 – PL Gdansk, Mystic Festival
06/06 – FI Tampere, Ankea Festival
13/06 – IT Ferrara Summer Fest w/ A Perfect Circle
18/06 – HR Zagreb, SRC Salata w/ A Perfect Circle
23/06 – NL Tilburg, 013 w/ A Perfect Circle
24/06 – NL Amsterdam, AFAS Live w/ A Perfect Circle
07/08 – CZ Jaromer, Brutal Assault
22/08 – UK Bristol, Arctangent Festival
29/08 – NL Maastricht, Pelagic Fest
Live Dates & Tickets: https://www.aawilliamsmusic.com/gigs
About A.A. Williams
Having made her debut live appearance at the prestigious Roadburn Festival in the Netherlands off the back of a self-titled EP, A.A. WILLIAMS has since toured across the globe with the likes of CULT OF LUNA, EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY, RUSSIAN CIRCLES, SLEEP TOKEN and THE SISTERS OF MERCY, as well as establishing herself as a headline artist – including a show at the iconic Queen Elizabeth Hall inside London’s Southbank Centre.
Standout festival appearances have dovetailed with two album releases – 2020’s “Forever Blue” and 2022’s “As The Moon Rests” – both of which received widespread critical acclaim and placed A.A. WILLIAMS at the forefront of a wave of artists taking textured, epic and folk-rooted heavy music into new and progressive directions. A BBC session at the legendary Maida Vale Studios only bolstered her credentials.
Never one to rest on her laurels, she has also released a series of “companion pieces”: a collaborative single with Japanese post-rock titans MONO (“Exit In Darkness”); a solo covers collection recorded during 2020’s pandemic lockdown – Songs From Isolation – that drew praise from THE CURE’s Robert Smith and SMASHING PUMPKINS’ Billy Corgan; and perhaps most impressively, 2021’s arco, in which the multi-instrumentalist completely reworked her debut EP from rock instrumentation to string ensemble, drawing on her classical training to stunning effect.
Now signed to Reigning Phoenix Music, the singles “Just A Shadow” and “Wolves” – the first taste of forthcoming album Solstice, due 5th June 2026 – have already turned heads, with Rock Sound calling her “one of the most vital voices in modern alternative culture” and Kerrang! declaring her work “typically spell-binding.”
Find A.A. WILLIAMS online:
Website
Spotify
Apple Music
Bandcamp
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Facebook
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TikTok
About Reigning Phoenix Music
Founded in 2023, Reigning Phoenix Music is truly the 100% independently owned vision of music industry professional Gerardo Martinez and avionics and tech entrepreneur, Sven Bogner. The blueprint is to continue to help heavy metal, extreme, hard, and heavy music thrive by partnering with an array of well-established acts, new talent, and iconic artists, by offering best services and practices in the industry. But most important is to help the artists amplify their art and talent to a winning formula for success.
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