Nothings Real

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Shura opened for CHVRCHES around Europe earlier this year before playing a homecoming headline show at Koko on May 26th: further headline dates and festival appearances will follow (with the likes of Glastonbury, Primavera, End of the Road, Parklife). Her last 3 singles have all been ROTW with Annie Mac at Radio 1. In many ways Nothings Real is the perfect title for Shuras debut album, which mixes the personal and the fantastical to beguiling, immersive effect. It features songs written and painstakingly recorded across two years in her Shepherds Bush bedroom the site of which is blown up on the albums striking artwork but also reaches back further than that: into parents, childhood, past relationships and the possibilities of the future. All threaded together across the albums often-affecting narrative, the record assimilates everything Shura loves from early Madonna to Sci-fi, and War on Drugs to gaming but is also the sound of an artist pushing themselves hard, further into the unknown. A phrase coined after a breakup, Nothings Real confirms Shura as an important artist for the years ahead. Welcome as the record was almost called to her Shuniverse.