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Shamir

city: Philadelphia
country: USA
genre: Alternative
styles: Indie Pop, Indie Rock

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Caught Up

out on February 08, 2022

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Philadelphia’s Vegas-born multidisciplinary indie rock artist Shamir will release his highly anticipated brand new album Heterosexuality, this Friday, February 11 on AntiFragile Music. Reimagining 90’s Pop & Rock for the modern world is Shamir’s DNA. Expertly melding industrial synth with sticky pop hooks, the thread has developed and taken a new shape with Heterosexuality. Which has been dubbed an “Anticipated Album of 2022” by Pitchfork, Vulture, Stereogum, AV Club, Consequence, Paste, BrooklynVegan and others. Shamir has previously shared album tracks “Cisgender,” “Gay Agenda” + “Reproductive,” which have received accolades spanning The New York Times, NPR, Pitchfork, FADER, PAPER, NYLON and Entertainment Weekly. Today, Shamir has revealed the anthemic album preview track “Caught Up”, as the final preview.

Produced by Hollow Comet, a member of the band Strange Ranger, the new collection is the first to confront Shamir’s queerness explicitly. On the cover, Shamir appears in the horns and hooves of an almost Luciferian creature, an androgynous Baphomet, a “subhuman,” beautiful terror. Instead of a pure gender confirmation, he chooses a radical refusal of any sort of categorization at all. It’s a floating point of rebuff, erasing any ideological identification, further confirming Shamir as the everything-for-everyone polymathic antihero of the indie underground.

Shamir’s critically acclaimed self-titled album was released in 2020 and his first book But I’m a Painter came out this summer. He also partnered with the AI design studio Urbancoolab to launch the Bipolar Butterfly clothing line which donates a portion of proceeds to the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Shamir recently toured with Lucy Dacus and Courtney Barnett.