Blondshell

Brudenell Social Club, Leeds.

Blondshell

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Blondshell (Sabrina Teitelbaum) today shares her newest single “Two Times,” along with a lyric video. The track is an acoustic guitar and piano-driven showcase of Sabrina Teitelbaum at her most tender, stripped-back, and introspective. It’s a revelatory sonic left-turn and follows last month’s release of the stadium-sized statement “T&A,” which came alongside the announcement of her highly anticipated sophomore album, If You Asked For A Pictureout May 2, 2025 via Partisan Records. Returning to the studio with producer Yves Rothman, the project brims with an urgency, ambition, and devastating potency hinted at on Blondshell’s 2023 self-titled debut, the specificity, self-examination, and nonchalant humor of which turned her into one of the most lauded new artists in recent memory. Pre-order If You Asked For A Picture HERE

On the new single, Blondshell shares “I feel like I’m always seeing movies and shows where conflict is the only way love is expressed. It’s a lot of stories where someone has to work really hard to get somebody else to love them, and that’s what seems to make the relationship valuable. This song was basically like, what if it’s just solid? What if it’s just good and the relationship’s healthy? Does that mean it is less valuable? I think that’s a painful question because it’s essentially asking how capable you are of being in a decent relationship. But it’s also a love song in that way.” 

Blondshell also recently announced If You Asked For A Tour, her upcoming 2025 headline tour in support of her forthcoming sophomore album, If You Asked For A Picture. Kicking off on May 28th in San Diego, Blondshell will play shows throughout North America making stops in Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, New York City, Washington, DC and more before embarking on UK/EU dates in September.  With tickets selling quickly, venues in NYC, Toronto, Boston, and Denver have already seen upgrades. Blondshell will receive support from Jahnah Camille, Meg Elsier and Daffo across each leg of the US leg. All dates are below and for more information, please visit https://www.blondshellmusic.com/tour.

If You Asked For A Picture’s title borrows its title from a 1986 poem by the cherished American writer Mary Oliver, titled “Dogfish.” In it, Oliver grapples with the idea of telling one’s own story: how much to share, how much to keep for oneself — all questions Teitelbaum asked herself while writing the forthcoming LP. “There’s a part of the poem that says: ‘I don’t need to tell you everything I’ve been through. It’s just another story of somebody trying to survive,’” Teitelbaum says. “Something I love about songs is that you’re showing a snapshot of a person or a relationship, and showing a glimpse into a story can be just as important as trying to capture the entire thing. Sometimes it’s even truer to the entire picture than if you tried to write everything down.”

If You Asked For A Picture is alive with a more vital nuance both sonically and thematically, gesturing towards a deeper autobiographical story that taps into something painfully universal without being too overt. Teitelbaum explains, “The first record feels really black-and-white to me. This record has more questions.”

In the studio, Teitelbaum found herself confident and at home like never before, trusting her instincts as she developed an almost telekinetic shorthand with producer Yves Rothman. The result is a record of astounding sonic range – including sky-scraping ballads and colossal hooks that soar over waves of distortion, mixing layered textures and harmonic flourishes, or making unexpected hairpin turns between them. Primary among her production touchstones were unexpected curveballs like Queens of the Stone Age’s Rated R and Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Californication. Teitelbaum reveled in appropriating those hyper-masculine aesthetics for her uncompromising examinations of young womanhood, playing with performances of gender in rock. “It’s empowering for me to use sonic references that feel reserved for men,” she explains.

Blondshell’s self-titled 2023 debut unleashed a swiss-army-knife writing style that gets under your skin: songs that are as visceral and anthemic as pop music with all the specificity, self-examination, and nonchalant humor of the best indie rock — songs you want to let crash over you, even as their strength is too concrete to be washed away. The release garnered her critical acclaim and a devoted fan base,  She has since toured relentlessly, playing 150+ shows including major festivals and a tour with Liz Phair, on top of her own sold-out headline dates. In Summer 2024, she made appearances at high profile festivals including Governors Ball, Glastonbury, and Lollapalooza. Rolling Stone remarked that her “shows reliably give a sense of catharsis to attendees, and to Teitelbaum herself.” 

In support of the album she performed on The Tonight Show and CBS Saturday and the album garnered countless year-end accolades and landed on Obama’s Best Songs of 2023 list. In 2024, Blondshell released the standalone single “Docket” featuring Bully, which landed on NPRRolling Stone, and Esquire’s top songs of the year, and she was featured on A24’s Everyone’s Getting Involved: A Tribute To Talking Heads Stop Making Sense, covering the band’s “Thank You For Sending Me An Angel”.  

In the time since Blondshell, the image of Teitelbaum’s life has changed considerably. As the accolades accrued she spent more time on the road than at home.  This rootlessness naturally impacted Teitelbaum’s relationships with others and with herself. “When you travel a lot, you see different possibilities for who you can be,” Teitelbaum says. “So there were a lot more questions coming up. What do I want my life to look like? Maybe it’s just the nature of being two years older, but I’m more comfortable with nuance now, and I’m more comfortable with gray areas.” There’s an open-endedness to where If You Asked For A Picture lands: it’s a no-skips, triumphant sophomore record that captures the unresolved process of figuring out who you are, too wise to suggest that it has a definitive answer.

        

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