Shamir Heterosexuality LP Dubbed “Anticipated Album of 2022”
Critical Acclaim for Shamir:
"a song on radical acceptance" - NPR
"[Cisgender] is industrial, with brute-force drums and distorted guitar, insisting that limits
are being pushed" - The New York Times
"a spacey kick-snare drumbeat and a guitar line that sounds like a fuzzed-out step-sibling of Alex Scally's iconic lick from Beach House's "Space Song." - FADER
“‘Gay Agenda’ [is] a simmering indie rock jam about living on your own terms.”
- Billboard PRIDE
“Gay Agenda" is unnerving and brilliant” - PAPER
“The gliding synth storm from Shamir is a moving revelation of identity.” - NYLON
"a chill-inducing single" - Stereogum
“darkly gorgeous synths and fuzzed-out, Trent Reznor–indebted industrial beats”
- Entertainment Weekly
"a heady sonic mix of the female-fronted grunge bands he grew up worshiping" - VOGUE
"A reminder of his reputation as a fearless nonconformist who can bend any style to make a cosmic and vibrant world of his own." - The New Yorker
Photo credit: Marcus Maddox
Philadelphia’s Vegas-born multidisciplinary indie rock artistShamirwill release his highly anticipated brand new albumHeterosexuality,this Friday,February 11onAntiFragile 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 withHeterosexuality. Which has been dubbed an “Anticipated Album of 2022” byPitchfork,Vulture,Stereogum,AV Club,Consequence,Paste,BrooklynVeganand others. Shamir has previously shared album tracks “Cisgender,” “Gay Agenda” + “Reproductive,” which have received accolades spanningThe New York Times,NPR,Pitchfork,FADER,PAPER,NYLONandEntertainment 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.
Heterosexuality tracklist:
1. Gay Agenda
2. Cisgender
3. Abomination
4. Stability
5. Caught Up
6. Father
7. Cold Brew
8. Marriage
9. Reproductive
10. Nuclear
