SASAMI shares new track "Mess"
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SASAMI shares new track "Mess"

In March 2019, Los Angeles songwriter and multi-instrumentalist SASAMI released her self-titled debut album. Its ten tautly melodic rock tracks originated as a string of demos recorded straight to her iPad while on tour, and described the surprising ways that one's relationships—with lovers, with friends, with oneself—can shift in a single year.

SASAMI earned acclaim from critics: “a powerful first effort” according to Pitchfork; “one of the best debut rock albums of the past few years…incessantly replayable” via FLOOD; “impressive: finely crafted and introspective” per NPR.

Since then, SASAMI has toured internationally, released a holiday 3-track single titled lil drmr bb, and curated an issue of the zine Yes Plz.

Today, a full year since the release of her debut, SASAMI shares a new track, “Mess”. Watch the lyric video below.

On “Mess”, SASAMI said,

“I started making my self-titled album almost three years ago. Since then I’ve fucked other people, healed bad relationships, broken new good ones, found more joy, more anger and everything in between. Mess is where I’m at now. I wanted to end the year of my first album campaign with one last sentence before I crack into the stone slab of my next album. This time I didn’t want to provide any visual counterparts. I just want people to listen.”


On March 28, SASAMI will play Lodge Room in Los Angeles. Following that, come summer, catch SASAMI at The Wild Honey Pie’s Welcome Campers festival in May, and Virgin Fest in June. Upcoming dates below, find tickets at https://www.sasamiashworth.com.

More praise for SASAMI:
“SASAMI has already transcended her indie rock bonafides” – VICE
“brought a much-needed facelift to the singer/songwriter genre in 2019” – Paste
“Ashworth has hardly stumbled—her songs are organic, resonant, and exploratory.” – The Nation
“It’s both vulnerable and a little sore, like a wound mid-heal.” – Stereogum

SASAMI tour dates
03/28 Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room
5/23-25 Camp Lenox, MA @ Welcome Campers Festival
6/06-07 Los Angeles, CA @ Virgin Fest

SASAMI SASAMI

Album | 8th March 2019

SASAMI's self-titled debut album is playful, heartfelt and personal, chronicling the surprising ways that relationships - with lovers, with friends, with oneself - can shift in a single year.

Tracklisting

  • 1I Was A Window (feat. Dustin Payseur)
  • 2Not The Time
  • 3Morning Comes
  • 4Free (feat. Devendra Banhart)
  • 5Pacify My Heart
  • 6At Hollywood
  • 7Jealousy
  • 8Callous
  • 9Adult Contemporary (feat. Soko)
  • 10Turned Out I Was Everyone

SASAMI SASAMI

Album | 8th March 2019

SASAMI's self-titled debut album is playful, heartfelt and personal, chronicling the surprising ways that relationships - with lovers, with friends, with oneself - can shift in a single year.

Tracklisting

  • 1I Was A Window (feat. Dustin Payseur)
  • 2Not The Time
  • 3Morning Comes
  • 4Free (feat. Devendra Banhart)
  • 5Pacify My Heart
  • 6At Hollywood
  • 7Jealousy
  • 8Callous
  • 9Adult Contemporary (feat. Soko)
  • 10Turned Out I Was Everyone
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