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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It's been an formative few years for Denton, what with becoming a professional Twitch streamer after the pandemic halted her music plans and locked her in at home, but mostly due to the variety of mental health struggles that have inspired her newest record. Now on her third label with her third album I Got Too Sad For My Friends, Shura has doubled down on the tonality of forevher, but this time she's dived headfirst into the inner workings. The shift from Denton's 2016 debut Nothing's Real into 2019's forevher was a move away from 80s synth and high-level production into a softer, more tailored sound that handled the album's themes more delicately, and this move is seen again in her latest release.

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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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