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- Summary: The third full-length release from London-based pop artist Shura features guest appearances by Cassandra Jenkins, Becca Mancari and Helado Negro.
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- Record Label: Play It Again Sam
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Record CollectorJun 12, 2025Throughout, Shura blends acoustic guitar with melancholy synthesisers as beautifully as she blends her vocal harmonies, which, along with a sprinkling of woodwind and funk bass, come together in muted catharsis. [Jul 2025, p.105]
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May 30, 2025At 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.
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May 30, 2025A potent third record that retains a pop heart whilst wandering off into compelling new terrain. Her exploratory take on pop is gorgeous, redemptive, and full of life.
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May 30, 2025It’s still animated and dimensional, all existing under a warm ‘70s-to-’80s, folk-meets-synth-pop lens, which feels to be a natural direction for her sound to have taken
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Jun 4, 2025I Got Too Sad For My Friends doesn’t deliver much versatility. Each track rolls into the next, and while that is alike to the depression Denton dissects in the record, it doesn’t make for varied listening.
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May 30, 2025While I Got Too Sad’s emotional tenor can occasionally feel one-note, its warm, lush sound offers a counterbalance to its gloomy lyrics.