Blondshell releases new single ‘Fur Elise’ out now E

“an alt-rock star is born” – The Guardian 

“scorching snapshots of life’s complexities” – NME

On September 25, Blondshell (Sabrina Teitelbaum) will release her new album Violinsvia Partisan Records. The album finds her trading the veil of bad romantic relationships for something braver, asking how we balance the world’s violence with its beauty across eleven songs about troubled friendships, religion, the body, and the long, unglamorous work of healing.

After premiering as Radio 1’s Hottest Record with Jack Saunders yesterday evening, Blondshell today shares the album’s closing track ‘Fur Elise’. An epic capstone, the track pairs Teitelbaum’s signature loud/quiet sonic structure with the most emotionally complex and resonant songwriting she’s ever recorded. Built around crunchy rhythmic guitars, warm low-end, and dense melodic arrangements that bloom into something panoramic, the song feels like the penultimate scene of a coming-of-age film.

Behind virtuosic hooks and Sabrina’s tactful, powerhouse alto, ‘Fur Elise’ narrates the complexities of growing up without knowing exactly how. The song turns on a central metaphor: walking down the aisle to the simple classical piano piece ‘Fur Elise’, fully aware that no one would actually get married to it. The mismatch is the point. She explains: “You’re trying to figure out what you want your life to look like, and what you want playing at your wedding, but you don’t even know where to start. You’re picking the wrong song.” 

Growth, self-possession, and the ongoing process of healing might seem to another person like “watching paint dry,” as she sings on Violins’ opening title track, but on ‘Fur Elise’ she circles back around with a statement-of-self on her own terms: “Paint a wall with the things you want spoken out loud / And you get the choice to forget / And you render art / And the truth of it is separate.”

Blondshell previously shared Violins’ “Heart Has To Work So Hard” and the album’s title track.

Produced by Yves Rothman, mixed by Beatriz Artola, and mastered by Emily Lazar, Violinsis an album of grandeur, drama, and tragedy, built on virtuoso hooks, swelling guitars, and big lead lines. Telling lyrical nods to Leonard Cohen and Pavement sit alongside fresh influences – Gang of Four and Teenage Fanclub’s singular tones, The Go-Betweens’ indie-pop precision, Sade’s calming synths. Violins carries you like a wave.

“This record’s heavy in a way,” Teitelbaum says, though her songwriting breathes anew. “It’s gotten a little bit less literal,” she says. “There’s more imagery. But my main goal with this record was to have songs that hit hard. I wanted big lead lines.” Three albums on, Teitelbaum’s working relationship with Rothman has fully locked in – fleshing out the demos of songs Teitelbaum wrote on her own, then recording live with the band. “I felt like I wasn’t walking in the dark anymore,” Teitelbaum said of her increasing studio fluency. “I spend more time with Yves than almost anybody – we just have such an efficient working relationship.”

A mind-body tension flows through Violins. Teitelbaum writes about the body with her characteristically clever finesse using food metaphors and singing bluntly about periods to underscore how the body and mind are inseparable. The album also finds her invoking the spiritual as she explores a personal relationship with a higher power not through organized religion but in the makeup of one’s earthly life.

Blondshell Tour Dates

27th August – Ascension Saint Thomas Landing at Nashville Yards – Nashville, TN *free show*
6th December – Melkweg – Amsterdam, NL #
7th December – Metropol – Berlin, DE #
8th December – Ancienne Belgique – Brussels, BE #
10th December – La Gaité Lyrique – Paris, FR #
12th December – O2 Ritz – Manchester, UK #
13th December – The Old Fruitmarket – Glasgow, UK #
15th December – Roundhouse – London, EN #
17th December – The Academy – Dublin, IE *
28th February – The Observatory North Park – San Diego, CA
2nd March – The Wiltern – Los Angeles, CA
3rd March – The Castro Theatre – San Francisco, CA
5th March – Crystal Ballroom – Portland, OR
7th March – Showbox SoDo – Seattle, WA
11th March – Varsity Theatre – Minneapolis, MN
12th March – The Vic Theatre – Chicago, IL
14th March – Union Transfer – Philadelphia, PA
15th March – 9.30 Club – Washington, DC
18th March – House of Blues – Boston, MA
19th March – Beanfield Theatre – Montreal, QC
20th March – Danforth Music Hall – Toronto, ON
22nd March – Brooklyn Steel – Brooklyn, NY

# – with TTSSFU
* – with Theatre

Blondshell’s If You Asked For A Picture, landed on numerous Best Of 2025 and Best Of 2025 (So far) lists, including Vogue, Billboard, Rolling Stone, NME, Alternative Press, FLOOD Magazine, and more. The album’s tracks have also received individual recognition, with “T&A” – which she performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live! – named as one of Rolling Stone’s “The Best 100 Songs of 2025” (#20), Billboard’s 50 Best Songs of 2025 So Far and Consequence’s 100 Best Songs of 2025 So Far (#29), while “What’s Fair” was included in the LA Times’ 25 Best Songs of 2025 So Far.

Violins Artwork