shura

okay earlier songs were kind of boring to me but this is AMAZING

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02x4pp0

http://www.hasshurafinishedheralbumyet.com/

"Touch" and "2 Shy" did little for me, but "White Light" is storming up my personal charts. The video for the extended version is quite good, too.

an ep of all her released songs would likely be in my top 5 of the year

https://soundcloud.com/muramasamusic/love-for-that

Collab with mura masa.

Shura debut album announced: Nothing’s Real

http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/02/shura-announces-debut-album-shares-new-version-of-touch-featuring-talib-kweli-listen/

Nothing’s Real and expected this spring (Wikipedia lists April 30th as a tentative date) through Interscope/Polydor.

Great!

Touch remix w/Talib Kweli very unnecessary though.

Still my favorite Shura track. Also, I still love Talib Kweli, but not here. Why???

So, "The Space Tapes"… didn't see that coming.

http://pitchfork-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/content/ShuraNothing.jpg

yeah "the space tapes" is wacky

er uh

http://pitchfork-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/content/ShuraNothing.jpg

the space tapes is fantastic!

Fourtet remix of "Touch" seems a little tossed off, like he just threw a sped up version of the vocal over a housier version of the music. It's alright though.

looking forward to the 10 minute version of White Light on the album

Grades remix is better, four tet remix is a bit dissapointing.

Space Tapes might be an extra track? Is there an error here or is the album version of white light really 10+ mins long?

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/nothings-real/id1091921046

Seems overkill to have two 9 mins+ songs at the end there in a pop album and I'm not sure if White Light could benefit from tripling its length.

here for a

er, here for a 10 minute white light, sounds sick as fuck

Original White Light is 7 minutes. If you've only heard the 3 min version you've been listening to the radio edit.

i believe "the space tapes" is a bonus track, which makes the idea of a 10-minute "white light" closing the album fuckin awesome

youtube for the space tapes in case anyone wants/needs it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZusCosPdvds

yea i was already p sure i liked this girl then she makes a 9+ min song & samples bob durst? luv her

this is very pretty

Just read that Greg Kurstin's involved in two of the tracks. This is officially my most anticipated album of 2016, now.

its still weird to me that her co-writer/producer on the initial singles was the guy from Athlete of all things

Glad "Indecision" made the album, it was a bit of a sleeper for me. I went from dismissing it to playing it as much as the other singles.

New track! The most (musically) upbeat thing she's done. I like it.

http://pigeonsandplanes.com/2016/05/shura-whats-it-gonna-be/

For some reason it reminded me of Jane Wiedlin's "Rush Hour".

That's a pretty clever comparison, and a right one.

i like this too

Just read that Greg Kurstin produced this one, which totally makes sense given how much it also sounds like recent Tegan and Sara.

"Liked" on Twitter by both Shura and the weekly farmers' market round the corner from my flat. Probably a first.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CjdUfFxUkAATuk3.jpg

…given how much it also sounds like recent Tegan and Sara

Let's bring them together shall we?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLmlty5IQvAl1hcslbhSo2_pt-R6O0NGiO&v=VTgCcARNGyY

Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ4uBdmnKds

^ Would make a great plot for a teen romcom

love this video so much

There's just one line of this song—the first of the repeated "I don't want to be that girl" couplet—where everything is a dead ringer for vintage Madonna. Cool trick.

Do we know yet if the Kweli version of "Touch" is the "Touch" that's going to be on the LP? I hope not.

the original solo version is on the LP

*heart eyes emoji*

https://soundcloud.com/shura/make-it-up

The chorus is a little weak, but otherwise another excellent track!

great, but there basically won't be anything new on the album at this point right?

Right. Just a couple of tracks at this point... plus the highly anticipated ~3 extra minutes of "White Light".

The video for "What's It Gonna Be" is my favourite film of the year so far.

album is great, love the new version of indecision. the space tapes is a weird way to end it though

is the space tapes a bonus track or the proper closer?

I thought it was the proper closer but seems like it's a digital only bonus track actually. The new hidden track at the end of White Light is definitely a much better way to end it.

"Tongue Tied"!!!!

enjoying the way "the stage" basically turns into a tame impala song in its second half

i cant stop listening to tommy its just beautiful

What a surprise that this album feels like part of a broader pattern embracing albums from Meerna and Emily King: sonically engrossing soft rock / r&b hybridism.

“Tommy” and the closer in particular are fantastic.

Yeah, Skyline, Be Mine is great and works so well at the end of the album. With that and White Light closing Nothing's Real, she really knows how to nail those last songs.

shu fly

I really got into the first album about a year ago. Didn't think I'd like this one so much from the singles. But damn what a gorgeous album, all of it.

Funny what kp said about the last songs. "White Light" ended the first album proper, but then "the Space Tapes" is tacked on. I kept thinking she was going to drop the "(game) over" sample (from "Nothing's Real") into "skyline be mine" like in the space tape that ends the first album...'s streaming version. It's got that same vibe, which is about the only time the two records sound anything alike.

i dont stan for genuis.com but i loved learning this bckground info tweets in the sidebar

https://genius.com/Shura-tommy-lyrics

prob what jeff w posted upthread

Wasn’t sure how I would feel about the neo-soul turn, but this album is great!The allmusic review called it “triumphantly romantic” and I fully agree.

Pristine, wonderful album.

Any good remixes yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65X3F-uRlrM

Uh oh, shura’s got the Space Tape out of the drawer again 😀
https://open.spotify.com/track/4I1HWbgxMMlQDqKIxI1A5L?si=ZZv3RvcGRhieUsPoTN-3tg

i don't wanna give you up
i don't wanna let you love somebody else but me
so what's it gonna be

Used so well in Heartstopper.

Randomly listening to Nothing's Real for the first time in a while, and damn it holds up.

I played it recently too and had the same feeling. It's a shame she seems to be almost forgotten about now.

Hoping a third album will appear soon.

the acoustic versions on the deluxe edition of forevher are excellent

Shura is in the studio making the new album

https://bsky.app/profile/shura.bsky.social/post/3latnobepv22u

lesbians rejoice

*squeees in cishet*

Can't believe it's been five years since the last one. First album is incredible, I return to it often

New album can be pre-ordered - not out til end of May tho

https://shura.bandcamp.com/album/i-got-too-sad-for-my-friends

Having my students in my Gay Life & Culture course watch and discuss her "What's it Gonna Be?" video next week.

Richardson (feat. Cassandra Jenkins)

this one's gonna kill me

The new single is gorgeous. Kind of reminds me of Jane Siberry when the chorus comes in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRylj98qcFY

Cassandra Jenkins and Helado Negro features, consider my interest even more piqued than it was before

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOV_T6B8UQ8

The Cassandra Jenkins track is gorgeous

new album out today!

Gorgeous album. The second half in particular has some of her most beautiful songs.

I'm the opposite, the first four songs are my favorites, but it's a pretty consistent listen. I doubt at this point she's gonna make something I like as much as her first album, but it's cool to see her playing with new sounds each release. I also love the album name!

You are both right as the entire thing is lovely.

opening notes seem to reference Air's "Alone in Kyoto" but are just different enough? Or was that track pulling from something I can't place?

"America" (middle of the tracklist) might actually be my favourite thing lol

love Shura and don't want anyone to feel like they like have to stick with one style, but this one is so far not really my thing. will give it another few goes.