SELF-TITLED DEBUT ALBUM OUT NOW VIA PARTISAN RECORDS
SET FOR THE GREAT ESCAPE + UK/EUROPEAN TOURING THROUGHOUT MAY
“one of the alternative rock albums of the year, and one to treasure tightly for quite some time“.”***** – NME
“Blondshell might just be your new obsession”– i-D
“a bonafide superstar” ***** – DORK
“recent releases justifies the buzz that is building round this razor-sharp lyricist”– Sunday Times Culture
“Blondshell is channelling honesty and rage, picking up the baton from alternative music’s greatest women”– The Line of Best Fit
“Blondshell makes cathartic alt-rock to die for”– The FACE
“[Blondshell] spares nobody, least of all herself…a knack for indelible melodies”– Dazed & Confused
“A songwriter whose lyrical touch cuts deep beyond the skin”– CLASH
Blondshell (aka Sabrina Teitelbaum) is very pleased to share a new single, and last prior to releasing her debut album. Listen to “Salad” HERE, which is lifted from the debut, self-titled album ‘Blondshell’ out now via Partisan Records.
Blondshell made her USTV debut with a performance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to premiere the new track.
“Look what you did, you’ll make a killer of a Jewish girl” sings Blondshell at the top of “Salad” a lyric so searing it almost burns through the speakers. Not only does “Salad” nod to Blondshell’s Judaism in its first 20-seconds (on the first night of Passover, no less), but it proceeds to rip through four more minutes of storytelling both angry and empowered, arevenge fantasy of sorts narrating an imagined vigilante justice after a friend’s abuser gets absolved of his crime.
The song’s lyrics may be jet-black, but as is often the case with Blondshell’s music, they are juxtaposed against a technicolour of infectious, hard-hitting melodies.
Pre-order the album Blondshell HERE
On the release of her debut album, Teitelbaum says, “It’s hard to summarise what this album means to me. I was able to work through so much by writing and singing these songs. In a way I was also able to find my voice by finally saying these things out loud. I wasn’t intending to write an album as much as I was just trying to get relief from an intense and difficult time in my life. My biggest hope is that people can see the album for what it is: there’s no happy ending or ‘message,’’ it’s just a window into what it’s like when you’re trying to figure out who you are and what you want.”
Blondshell will arrive in the UK and Europe next month to tour the record, kicking off at Brighton’s Great Escape with two slots, ahead of headline dates that include Moth Club on the 24th May, and shows in Manchester, Glasgow, and Bristol. All dates are below. More information can be found HERE
In the past few years, the 25-year-old Teitelbaum has transformed into a songwriter without fear. The loud-quiet excavations that comprise the hook-filled 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 towards confidence, self-possession, and relief.
Born and raised in New York City, Teitelbaum moved to Los Angeles for music school in 2015. She dropped out after two years, but while there studied classic and jazz theory, and the art of harmonies, and found herself writing songs inside the world of pop studio sessions.
The biggest gift the pop machine gave her was the stark clarity of realizing that she didn’t quite belong there. Her music was increasingly too raw and intense to easily categorize, and after finishing her last full-on pop EP with producer Yves Rothman (Yves Tumor, Girlpool, Porches) at the start of the pandemic, she gave herself permission to write without expectation. She began penning songs just for herself, with no thought that she would release them. 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 Rothman, he encouraged her to write an album, joining a chorus of friends saying, “This is you.” That bracing honesty charges every note of Blondshell.
Blondshell tracklisting
1.Veronica Mars
2.Kiss City
3.Olympus
4.Salad
5.Sepsis
6.Sober Together
7.Joiner
8.Tarmac
9.Dangerous
Blondshell Live Dates, UK/Europe:
11th May – The Great Escape, Brighton
12th May – The Great Escape, Brighton (w/ The Pretenders)
13th May – Point Ephemere, Paris
14th May – Le Grand Mix, Tourcoing
15th May – Helios37, Cologne
17th May – Privatclub, Berlin
18th May – Molotow Skybar, Hamburg
19th May – London Calling Festival, Amsterdam
20th May – Botanique, Brussels
24th May – Moth Club, London
25 th May – YES, Manchester
26th May – The Louisiana, Bristol
27th May – Wide Awake Festival, London
30th May – Primavera Sound, Barcelona
6th June – Primavera Sound, Madrid
9th June – Primavera Sound, Porto
2nd – 4th November – Iceland Airwaves, Reykjavik
CONNECT WITH BLONDSHELL:
