Animated by Rory Alene, the video features an animated Shalom walking around her college town, New Brunswick, NJ, wishing she was someone else. She explains: “This song is one of my favorite things I’ve ever made. I wrote it in 45 minutes and sent it to Ryan (Hemsworth), he sent it back with the guitars, and I fell in love with myself by making a song about wanting to be someone else”.

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Of the song and its namesake Shalom explains: “This song is about a time in my life that I used to be very upset and embarrassed about, but now I’m like, wow, I feel so much better after writing this song. It’s called ‘Soccer Mommy’ because I got my driver’s license in late 2019 and spent my first year on the road listening to Color Theory and thinking about my 20-year-old self who didn’t deserve the things that happened to her. I love Soccer Mommy. I’m terrified of driving, but I always felt brave listening to ‘Circle The Drain’ on 287 south.”

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Now you can watch the video for the lead single ‘Happenstance,’ a track that finds Shalom world sick. Over a muscular bassline, she sings, “I’m waiting for the day that I can finally walk away from all this bullshit.” As the track settles into a mesmerizing groove, she sings over the chorus, “I’m just trying to erase myself whenever I get the chance / my need to evaporate and receive validation at the same time is just happenstance.” It’s in these contradictions where Shalom’s writing thrives and is at the core of Sublimation. 

Born in Maryland, raised in South Africa, and now residing in Brooklyn, Shalom’s musical journey has been an unconventional one. After experimenting in bands within the New Brunswick DIY scene (where she attended university), Shalom continued to push the boundaries of her songwriting, pulling from her experience as a first-generation woman of color and a college student in a predominately white space. In December 2020 She quietly released ‘Concrete’ and a couple of other early home-recorded demos on a self-released EP titled the first snowstorm of the year, which eventually caught the ear of producer Ryan Hemsworth. Impressed by her already-fully formed perspective and tight melodic sensibility, Hemsworth asked Shalom to work on his project Quarter-Life Crisis and she later signed with the seminal label Saddle Creek. The pair hit it off and began a year-long collaboration via Zoom, making music together and ultimately creating an extensive body of work that became Sublimation.  

Sublimation:

1. Narcissist
2. Happenstance
3. Whole Life
4. Soccer Mommy
5. Did It To Myself
6. Concrete
7. Nowadays
8. Train Station
9. Bodies
10. Lighter
11. Mine First
12. Live Through This
13. End In Sight

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