Blondshell has announced her new album ‘Violins’ and shared its anthemic title track – check it out below.
The Los Angeles artist – real name Sabrina Teitelbaum – will release her third studio album and follow-up to last year’s ‘If You Asked For A Picture’ on September 25 via Partisan Records. Pre-order your copy here.
Teitelbaum has already shared the single ‘Heart Has To Work So Hard’ and now she is back with the album’s title track, a towering, anthemic tune that sees her singing: “It’s not overnight / It takes all my focusing / It’s like watching paint / Wait, what’d you say? Rushing just puts more on my plate / Cuz it’s not overnight”.
Check out the Sabra Binder-directed video for ‘Violins’ here:
Speaking about the song, Teitelbaum has said: “This song sums up the album in a lot of ways. When I was writing I felt really drawn to images of patience and kindness, for example putting your head on someone’s shoulder, alongside images of violence. I was also inspired by the idea of healing slowly and refusing to be rushed by any outside force. Things genuinely just take the time they take. I’m not at a point in life where I can have a no assholes policy yet, but I like the idea of weeding out people that aren’t going to let me have limitations.”
The 11-track record was produced by Yves Rothman, mixed by Beatriz Artola and mastered by Emily Lazar.
Teitelbaum added: “I felt like I didn’t need to overexplain anything, like I can trust the people listening more,” she said. “It feels like every time I make a record, I get closer to making the thing that I really want to make.”
“This record’s heavy in a way,” she continued. “It’s gotten a little bit less literal. There’s more imagery. But my main goal with this record was to have songs that hit hard. I wanted big lead lines.”
Blondshell will also tour North America, the UK and Europe later this year, including her biggest London headline show to date at the Roundhouse on December 15. See the full list of dates here and find any remaining tickets here (UK) and here (North America).
In an interview with NME last year, Teitelbaum spoke about moving away from the searingly confessional tone of her debut on ‘If You Asked For A Picture’. “I think I feel pretty masculine as a person, and my relationship with gender has been somewhat complicated,” she said.
‘If You Asked For A Picture’ earned a four-star review from NME, which described the songs as “still as sharp and impactful, but focused more on the spaces in between her stories than the plots themselves.”