Blondshell Faces The Fire With New Single And Sophomore LP ‘If You Asked For A Picture’

by | May 1, 2025

Alt-rock torchbearer Blondshell (aka Sabrina Teitelbaum) is preparing to light the fuse on her next era with the release of her highly anticipated sophomore album, If You Asked For A Picture, arriving this Friday, 2nd May via Partisan Records. Today, she offers one last taste before the full detonation with the release of her latest single, Event Of A Fire—a smoldering slow-burn that builds from embers to an emotional inferno.

Blondshell @ MOTH Club

Blondshell @ MOTH Club (Kalpesh Patel)
Blondshell @ MOTH Club (Kalpesh Patel)

Written during a spiral of tour-induced burnout and sparked by a real-life 4 a.m. hotel fire alarm outside Boston, Event Of A Fire captures Blondshell at her most cinematic. It’s a six-minute crescendo of vulnerability and volatility, starting with a lone guitar arpeggio and ending in a maelstrom of crashing drums and distorted wails. “It’s not really, ‘what if I’m burnt out from touring,’” Teitelbaum explains. “It’s like, ‘what if I’m burnt out from just existing?’” That existential fatigue turns into a confessional anthem, one that’s raw, beautiful, and entirely unflinching.

The single arrives alongside a haunting video starring French actress Ghjuvanna Benedetti, directed by Emilé Moutaud, which follows a diver quietly unraveling beneath the surface of her everyday life. As with Blondshell’s best work, it’s the subtle implosions—beneath uniforms, routines, and rituals—that make the biggest impact.

Event Of A Fire joins previously released tracks T&A, Two Times, 23’s A Baby, and What’s Fair—each peeling back new layers of Teitelbaum’s psyche and sonic palette. Whether she’s performing a stripped-back ballad or crashing through a fuzzed-out hook, there’s an emotional immediacy to Blondshell’s music that cuts straight to the bone. Working once again with producer Yves Rothman, If You Asked For A Picture deepens the self-exploration and sonic ambition that earned her 2023’s breakout acclaim. The album’s title is borrowed from a 1986 Mary Oliver poem, “Dogfish,” and speaks to the record’s theme of narrative control—how much of yourself you reveal, and how much you hold back.

“There’s a part of the poem that says: ‘I don’t need to tell you everything I’ve been through. It’s just another story of somebody trying to survive,’” Teitelbaum explains. “Sometimes showing a glimpse into a story can be just as important as trying to capture the entire thing.”

With production nods to the likes of Queens of the Stone Age’s Rated R and Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Californication, Blondshell finds power in borrowing traditionally “masculine” rock sounds and filtering them through her own lens of young womanhood. The result is a collection that’s massive in scope, emotionally intricate, and—despite its burn—it glows.

Blondshell @ MOTH Club

Blondshell @ MOTH Club (Kalpesh Patel)
Blondshell @ MOTH Club (Kalpesh Patel)

Blondshell will celebrate the album’s release with a sold-out underplay at The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, complete with stick-and-poke tattoos, a photo booth, and other surprises. After that, she hits the road for an international headline tour kicking off in the U.S. on May 28, before heading to the UK and Europe in September, including two nights at London’s Electric Brixton, the second added after the first sold out.

With If You Asked For A Picture, Blondshell isn’t just delivering a second album—she’s delivering a portrait. One framed in distortion and honesty, painted with humor and heaviness, and left intentionally unfinished. Because like all of us, she’s still figuring it out.

Upcoming UK & Ireland Tour Dates:

JULY
5th – London, Finsbury Park

SEPTEMBER
2nd – Dublin, Button Factory
4th – Manchester, New Century
6th – Glasgow, QMU
7th – Leeds, Brudenell Social Club
9th – Bristol, SWX
10th – Brighton, Chalk
11th – London, Electric Brixton
12th – London, Electric Brixton

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