Sasami announces Blood On the Silver Screen, her new album to be released on 7 March on Domino. The eclectic musician, producer and composer combines her classical conservatory training with her bold and explosive artistic personality to create her most accomplished work to date: a bold, pop album.

Nothing exemplifies this more than the wistfully optimistic album opener and lead single “Slugger,” released alongside an explosive video directed by Crystalline Structures Studio. On the lively track, Sasami name checks Dolly Parton, Chopin, and Steve Lacy. Though her background is in classical music and production, she doubled down on Blood On the Silver Screen’s lyrics: “I wanted to be more playful and communicate more with pop culture,” she says. “When I listen to music, I think about how I feel, how I want to feel, how I want to move to it. And that’s what’s special about music—how it connects to culture, how it connects to different styles of music, how it connects to the timbre of the voice of the person singing it.”

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