A.A. Williams announces in-store signings for new album "Solstice"
A.A. Williams, acclaimed and defined by her musical interplay of fragility and force, has unveiled a string of UK in-store signings for her striking new full-length album "Solstice", which is out now via RPM. The short run will include stops in Newcastle, Leeds, Bristol, Oxford, Hastings, and Kingston. Latest album “Solstice” arrives as Williams’ most powerful and poetic work to date, an album shaped by extremes of light and darkness, weight and fragility, devastation and renewal. Thunderous highs, intimate lows and vivid emotional shifts unfold across a record that feels both deeply personal and cinematic in scale.
The sessions are free, so tickets will be snapped up fast! As well as signings, Williams will also be performing a solo and intimate set with tracks off the new album at these in-stores.
In-Store Signing Dates:
Thu 18th Jun - NEWCASTLE Reflex Record Shop
Fri 19th Jun - LEEDS Crash Records
Sat 20th Jun - BRISTOL Black City
Sat 20th Jun - OXFORD Truck Music Store
Sun 21st Jun - HASTINGS Tough Love
Sun 21st Jun - KINGSTON Banquet Records
Tickets for the in-store appearances are available to book HERE
Long celebrated for her haunting vocals, immersive dynamics and striking emotional clarity, Williams expands her sonic world with an album that moves like a ritual through changing seasons. Guitars churn like gathering weather, strings glow with fragile warmth, and her voice unfolds from restrained intimacy into commanding emotional force.
“Solstice” captures A.A. Williams at a creative turning point. Inspired by years of global touring, acclaimed collaborations and genre-defying reinterpretations, the album finds her fully embracing both vulnerability and power.
Balancing crushing heaviness with moments of startling beauty, “Solstice” invites listeners into a world where silence can feel as immense as sound itself. It is intimate, dramatic and quietly radiant — music for endings, beginnings and the long road between the two.
“Solstice” Tracklist
1. Poison
2. Wolves
3. Little By Little
4. Hold It Together
5. Outlines
6. I’ve Seen Enough
7. The Veil
8. Just A Shadow
9. It Won’t Rain Forever
10. Breathe
11. The Gentle Harm
“Solstice" is out now on RPM and is available to buy HERE.
Photo (C) Jake Owens
A.A. Williams is performing live through festival season, across Europe, you can catch her live the following shows:
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
For more live dates and tickets details check out Williams’ website HERE.
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."
