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Five years after her critically acclaimed album forevher, Shura is back with her highly anticipated third studio album I Got Too Sad For My Friends. A pastoral blend of chamber pop, sixties folk and campfire Americana, it builds Shuras introspective songwriting out into a vast landscape more tranquil than the soulful bounce of forevher, and more rustic than the brooding synth-pop of her 2016 debut Nothings Real. Though its an album exploring themes of depression and loneliness, I Got Too Sad For My Friends is far from dejected – it retains Shuras usual crystalline sound and precision while introducing a different kind of warmth and earthiness. Approached like an old school record that captures a performance rather than a production, much of the album was recorded live, with the keys, bass, guitar, and drums all tracked as a single performance. The vocals were done separately with the exception of soft funk track Ringpull. The decision to explore a wider breadth of instruments for the first time came from a sense of urgency that was, in part, prompted by the pandemic. It made me think: this could be over at any minute. I could never get to make a record again. I could never tour again. So my approach to this record was like, if I never get to do this again, what do I want to make sure I’ve done? I want to record live. I want to work with textures I’ve never worked with before. I want to dress up as a gnome bard knight and climb a mountain in Wales, regret it, and have no one else to blame except for myself because I’m freezing, she laughs. So even though its not necessarily a maximalist record in terms of how it sounds, the approach was maximal joy for me making it which is hilarious, because it’s about being miserable!
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