Album Review: I Got Too Sad For My Friends by Shura

At the centre of Shura's third album is the rousing anthemic piano ballad I Wanna Be Loved By You, and it captures the DNA at the heart of this yearning, vulnerable record. It occupies a place of lovelorn uncertainty: forgiveness, guilt, pettiness, anger, Jesus Christ - it's all here. The album is a lesson in melancholy. You'd expect that, it is called I Got Too Sad For My Friends, after all.

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Shura, real name Alexandra Denton, has been away long enough to label her return with new album – the honestly titled – 'I Got Too Sad for My Friends ', a comeback. Lets just say, it’s been worth the wait. Her previous album 'forevher ' threw splashes of pop and alt-leaning inspiration from a wide array of artists at the canvas; it stuck so well she earmarked herself as one to watch closely in the future.

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On third record 'I Got Too Sad For My Friends', a bohemian Shura finds herself isolated in once densely populated cities ('Leonard Street', 'Tokyo', 'Richardson'). Any attempts to resist this post-pandemic psyche - where anxious urgency battles depressive lethargy - are futile, and Shura succumbs to social anxiety, insecurity and agoraphobia. At times she obsessively, compulsively fears death: "I asked you if you thought I was dying / Got mad at you when you said no / Like I'd rather die just so I could be right / And you were trying to prove me wrong" ('Online').

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