Shalom - Sublimation

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Shalom, Sublimation 

Shalom makes strikingly direct music with such emotional openness and clarity that each track on her debut album Sublimation, out March 10 via Saddle Creek, feels like a quiet revelation. While the Brooklyn-based, South Africa-raised artist writes fearlessly personal songs about moments in her life combining the storytelling of Lucy Dacus with the urgency of Indigo DeSouza, her honesty is so blunt it’s inviting. Her lyrics clear whatever tension there is to make room for catharsis. These 13 tracks are a reflection of the many sides of herself with stories of heartbreak, feeling like an outsider, self-medicating and partying, and ultimately choosing love over fear. While she paints the edges of indie rock, Shalom along with her collaborator Ryan Hemsworth (Quarter-Life Crisis) team up for challenging and vivid arrangements that are danceable, driving, and also delicate.  

Though Shalom has only been writing her own songs since the summer of 2020, she’d played bass in a band in the New Brunswick DIY scene. Following the dissolution of her band, she went through a period of mourning and writer’s block. “It was some of the most painful, creative experiences I've ever had,” she says. She wrote “Concrete,” the first song she ever wrote and produced herself, as a way to process the loss of that creative outlet. It’s a gorgeous track complete with yearning strings and Shalom singing, “We watched the future that we built just slip away / I still think of you almost every day / But there are good things in life no one can force you to take.” Even though it was her debut song, there’s depth and generosity tucked in each line.  

TRACKLIST:

A1 - Narcissist
A2 - Happenstance
A3 - Whole Life
A4 - Soccer Mommy
A5 - Did It To Myself
A6 - Concrete
A7 - Nowadays
B1 - Train Station
B2 - Bodies
B3 - Lighter
B4 - Mine First
B5 - Live Through This 
B6 - End In Sight