A.A. Williams has dropped ‘Poison’, the powerful new single lifted from her forthcoming album Solstice, due June 5 via RPM.
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‘Poison’ pushes deeper into the shadow-drenched terrain that A.A. Williams has steadily carved out across the last few years. Built around swelling, grungy guitars, cinematic weight and her unmistakably spectral voice, the track moves with the slow inevitability of something beautiful catching fire.
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“‘Poison’ is a song of learning not to fear freedom,” Williams explains, describing the track as a spiral where “euphoria and self-sabotage look like one and the same.”
The accompanying video, created alongside visual collective Gruppa13, leans heavily into that atmosphere. Set within a dreamlike world suspended somewhere between gothic elegance and psychological collapse, the clip mirrors the song’s movement toward liberation and ruin simultaneously. There’s beauty everywhere, though none of it feels safe.
Since first emerging via a self-titled EP and a breakthrough appearance at Roadburn Festival, Williams has steadily built a reputation for turning heaviness into something strangely graceful. Tours alongside Cult of Luna, Explosions in the Sky, Russian Circles, Sleep Token and The Sisters of Mercy have only reinforced that reputation, while projects like the starkly reimagined arco and her lockdown covers collection Songs From Isolation revealed an artist equally comfortable with orchestral minimalism and overwhelming sonic force.
If ‘Poison’ is any indication, Solstice looks set to deepen that duality even further. Music suspended between collapse and transcendence, where darkness isn’t merely aesthetic but something tangible and lived-in.
