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Blondshell shares her 5 favorite winter albums.
In the quiet, introspective stretch of the year where the days shorten and the air turns crisp, there's a particular magic to how certain albums can score the season, becoming as essential as a warm coat. Blondshell, the artist born Sabrina Teitelbaum, understands this intimately, having just released ‘Another Picture,’ the companion piece to her critically acclaimed 2024 self-titled debut that arrived earlier this year.This new offering, a collection of raw, demo-like versions from the ‘Blondshell’ sessions, feels like a perfect artifact for the winter months—a time for looking inward and examining the bones of a song, stripped of its summer sheen. It’s a move that recalls the deep-cut compilations and B-side treasures of 90s alt-rock heroes, the kind of thing you’d find on a coveted cassette tape passed between friends, and it’s from this well of musical reverence that she shares her five essential winter albums.For an artist whose songwriting often feels like a cathartic excavation of personal history and anxiety, her selections are a curated map of her influences, a playlist that mirrors the stark beauty and emotional clarity of her own work. She might lean into the gritty, guitar-driven melancholy of The Cure’s ‘Pornography,’ an album that wraps despair in a cocoon of sound perfect for long, dark evenings, or perhaps the sprawling, cinematic heartbreak of Joni Mitchell’s ‘Blue,’ a record that feels like watching frost form on a windowpane.There’s likely a place for Elliott Smith’s whisper-quiet intensity on ‘Either/Or,’ where every plucked string and hushed vocal feels like a shared secret in a cold room, or the raw, unvarnished poetry of Liz Phair’s ‘Exile in Guyville,’ which possesses a confrontational warmth that defies the chill. And no winter list would be complete without the haunting, atmospheric landscapes of Bon Iver’s ‘For Emma, Forever Ago,’ an album born from literal isolation that has become the quintessential soundtrack for metaphorical hibernation. For Blondshell, these aren't just records; they are companions for the season, each one a lesson in how to find beauty in barrenness and how the most potent art often emerges from a place of quiet contemplation, much like her own ‘Another Picture’ serves as a stark, beautiful postscript to a breakthrough year.
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