Blondshell Blondshell

• 1Veronica Mars01:57
• 2Kiss City02:23
• 3Olympus03:36
• 4Salad04:34
• 5Sepsis03:46
• 6Sober Together04:02
• 7Joiner03:59
• 8Tarmac03:47
• 9Dangerous04:38
• Total Runtime32:42

Info for Blondshell

In the past few years, 25-year-old Sabrina Teitelbaum has transformed into a songwriter without fear. The loud-quiet excavations that comprise her hook-filled debut as Blondshell don’t only stare traumas in the eye—they tear them at the root and shake them, bringing precise detail to colossal feelings. They’re clear-eyed statements of and about digging your way toward confidence, self-possession, and relief.

Sabrina shed her previous, pop-leaning project, Baum, and the process emboldened her. Subtracting self-consciousness became a catalyst for the lucid songs of Blondshell, on which her experiences all coalesce to form her truest expressions of self yet. “It was me, as a person, in my songs,” she says. When she showed a few to producer Yves Rothman (Yves Tumor, Girlpool, Porches), he encouraged her to write an album, joining a chorus of friends saying, “This is you.”

Blondshell

Sabrina Teitelbaum aka Blondshell
Loudquietloud. The formula patented by Pixies, which gave its name to their documentary, is still a contemporary pattern that has been especially effective (Kim Deal's fault?) in American alt-rock singer-songwriters such as Snail Mail, Soccer Mommy and, sometimes, Phoebe Bridgers (and has also caught on with some Australians, like Julia Jacklin). L.A.-based New Yorker Sabrina Teitelbaum aka Blondshell, has also started her career following this mountain-valley-mountain arrangement. At least Olympus, one of her singles that has generated a buzz of excitement and drawn so much admiration (she is already going on tour with Porridge Radio), has everything that can be asked of a new indie-rock talent today: a classical air, lyrics without clichés (and they deal with sex, love/heartbreak and addiction) and youthfulness. In Kiss City, the other hit that has captured everyone's attention, she mirrors the illustrious languor of Hope Sandoval and Maria Mckee. Another indie niche that Blondshell nurtures with care, freshness and a spirit of renewal.

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