SASAMI has announced her next album: Blood on the Silver Screen will be released on March 7, 2025 via Domino. Along with the news, she’s shared the album’s opening track, ‘Slugger’, which arrives with a video directed by Crystalline Structures Studio. Check it out below.
“I wanted to be more playful and communicate more with pop culture,” Sasami Ashworth explained in a statement. “When I listen to music, I think about how I feel, how I want to feel, how I want to move to it. And that’s what’s special about music – how it connects to culture, how it connects to different styles of music, how it connects to the timbre of the voice of the person singing it.”
The follow-up to 2022’s Squeeze was co-produced by Jenn Decilveo and Rostam. It features the previously shared single ‘Honeycrash’, as well as a guest appearance from Clairo on the song ‘In Love With a Memory’. SASAMI continued:
This album is all about learning and respecting the craft of pop songwriting, about relenting to illogical passion, obsession, and guiltless pleasure. It’s about leaning into the chaos of romance and sweeping devotion—romanticism to the point of self-destruction.
I was always a weirdo outsider and I didn’t feel like pop music spoke to me. Being a woman of color, I’ve always felt this pressure or need to make something that’s mysterious or innovative, and always shied away from lightheartedness.
My relationship to love and sex was so tied into these repressive, super restrictive definitions. This album for me is about having deep, meaningful relationships within a new definition of what is good, what is right, and what is powerful. We are still passionate beings.
I wanted to go all out with this album. I wanted to, in my tenderness and emotionality, have the bravery to undertake something as epic as making a pop record about love. I hope it makes people feel empowered and embodied, too. It’s important to not box yourself in.
Blood on the Silver Screen Cover Artwork:
Blood on the Silver Screen Tracklist:
1. Slugger
2. Just Be Friends
3. I’ll Be Gone
4. Love Makes You Do Crazy Things
5. In Love With A Memory [feat. Clairo]
6. Possessed
7. Figure it Out
8. For The Weekend
9. Honeycrash
10. Smoke (Banished from Eden)
11. Nothing But A Sad Face On
12. Lose It All
13. The Seed