If You Asked For A Picture

After the reception to her 2023 self-titled debut as Blondshell, it’s no surprise that Sabrina Teitelbaum’s follow-up, *If You Asked for a Picture*, came together while she was quite literally on the move. “I was touring a lot, so I was in a lot of new places and just writing about what was going on,” she tells Apple Music’s Zane Lowe. “I didn’t have the intention of making an album, but when I got home, I was like, ‘Oh, I’m going to start demoing these songs.’” The resulting 12 tracks may have come together casually, but *If You Asked for a Picture* is a fuller and richer evocation of the Blondshell sound, pairing spiky ’90s alternative rock sounds with acerbic couplets. Along with longtime studio collaborator Yves Rothman (Kim Gordon, Yves Tumor), Teitelbaum adds subtle sonic flourishes to her winning sound—peep the Ronettes-recalling backbeat of “23’s a Baby” and the dream pop of closer “Model Rockets”—but her cutting and personal songwriting style remains the project’s hallmark. Who else could write an introspective exploration of living with OCD, as Teitelbaum does on the explosive “Toy,” and sneak in a withering line like, “I’ve been running this ship like the Navy/But it’s more like a Wendy’s”? As Teitelbaum’s songwriting continues to mature, Blondshell’s balance of the devastating and the deeply funny continues on as one of indie rock’s most thrilling high-wire acts.

On her second album of dreamy, ’90s-indebted alt-rock, Sabrina Teitelbaum interrogates mid-20s heartache and complex family relationships with bluntness and guarded optimism.

Blondshell grapples with the past that informs her present on her second album ‘If You Asked For A Picture’ – read the NME review

Blondshell picks at old wounds over infectious, chugging indie-rock arrangements on If You Asked For A Picture.

Blondshell's 'If You Asked for a Picture'

Teitelbaum cements herself as more than just an indie darling.

Far less direct than her debut, and more thoughtful.

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Blondshell's new LP is beautifully produced and clouds the issue of feeling like a throwback to a bygone era, rather than a call for a new generation of songwriters.

If You Asked for a Picture by Blondshell album review by Izzy Kaz for Northern Transmissions. The LP drops on May 2nd via Partisan Records