After following up her alienated alt-rock debut with the darker, more existential If You Asked for a Picture, Blondshell (singer and songwriter Sabrina Teitelbaum) headed to the studio for the third straight time with producer Yves Rothman (Kim Gordon, Cherry Glazerr). The resulting Violins — so titled to capture the coexistence of violence and beauty in the world, its overarching theme — is her most ruminative set of songs yet. While the album includes quite a few fuzzy rockers, they’re of a midtempo, melancholy nature, including the opening title track, a borderline power ballad about the slow nature of healing from trauma (“It takes all my focusing/It’s like watching paint/Wait, what’d you say?”). Also falling in this category is lead single “Heart Has to Work So Hard,”…
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‘Another Picture’ is the deluxe edition of Blondshell’s acclaimed 2025 album. More than your typical deluxe release, ‘Another Picture’ features a new song plus covers by Conor Oberst, Folk Bitch Trio and more. – an expanded, reimagined look at a record that’s already become essential.
For her second album as Blondshell, L.A. singer-songwriter Sabrina Teitelbaum is figuring out how much of her life story she wants to tell the world — how much she needs to tell — and how much to hide away for herself. On her acclaimed 2023 self-titled debut, she was really letting it all hang out, in searing confessional indie-rock.
But on If You Asked for a Picture, Teitelbaum’s more ambivalent, more questioning, reckoning with her painful past, from childhood…