SASAMI announces Blood On the Silver Screen, her audacious and epic new album due March 7 via Domino. On it, the polymath combines her classical conservatory-trained skills as a player, producer, and composer with her fearless and bombastic stage persona to create her most realized music to date: the all-out SASAMI pop record. “This album is all about learning and respecting the craft of pop songwriting, about relenting to illogical passion, obsession, and guiltless pleasure,” SASAMI says. “It’s about leaning into the chaos of romance and sweeping devotion—romanticism to the point of self-destruction.”
Nothing exemplifies this more than the wistfully optimistic album opener and lead single ‘Slugger,’ released alongside an explosive video directed by Crystalline Structures Studio. On the lively track, SASAMI name checks Dolly Parton, Chopin, and Steve Lacy. Though her background is in classical music and production, she doubled down on Blood On the Silver Screen’s lyrics: “I wanted to be more playful and communicate more with pop culture,” she says. “When I listen to music, I think about how I feel, how I want to feel, how I want to move to it. And that’s what’s special about music—how it connects to culture, how it connects to different styles of music, how it connects to the timbre of the voice of the person singing it.”
Blood On the Silver Screen:
- Slugger
- Just Be Friends
- I’ll Be Gone
- Love Makes You Do Crazy Things
- In Love With A Memory (Feat. Clairo)
- Possessed
- Figure it Out
- For The Weekend
- Honeycrash
- Smoke (Banished from Eden)
- Nothing But A Sad Face On
- Lose It All
- The Seed
