There are few artists who can instantly capture a brand new audience with just a few songs, but that is what Los Angeles-based musician and songwriter Sabrina Teitelbaum has done with her new project Blondshell. Her first single “Olympus” caused a lot of buzz, but when “Kiss City” — an intimate track about the vulnerability of sex and love– dropped, every music critic, publication and fan alike knew she was an artist on the rise. Whether it’s through punchy rock ‘n’ roll tracks or channeling ’90s-era femme fatales, Teitelbaum is writing anthems for a new generation of angsty alt-rock lovers.
If you subscribe to the annual thinkpiece-floated idea that rock and roll is dead, how do you explain this [slams a vinyl copy of Blondshell’s self-titled debut on the table in front of you]? What Sabrina Teitelbaum accomplishes with Blondshell is an utterly streamlined take on good-times rock music without getting hung up on genre.
After establishing herself with self-examining alt-rock, Blondshell, aka Sabrina Teitelbaum, is primed to release her debut self-titled album later this month via Partisan. Singles “Veronica Mars” and “Kiss City” pull from the likes of Hole and The Cranberries, echoing mid-90s rock with an introspective modern edge. Having moved on from the coming-of-age pop Teitelbaum made with previous projects, Blondshell proves that being true to yourself is a creative process like no other.
Blondshell’s cover of The Cranberries’ “Disappointment,” out now on Partisan Records the self-titled debut album, out April 7th
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