Shalom - SublimationShalom makes strikingly direct music with such emotional openness and clarity that each track on her debut album Sublimation feels like a quiet revelation. While the Brooklyn based, South Africa raised artist writes fearlessly personal songs about moments in her life combining the storytelling of Lucy Dacus with the urgency of Indigo de Souza, her honesty is so blunt it's inviting. Her lyrics clear whatever tension there is to make room for catharsis.

"I'm a Blade Runner and Battlestar person

James Horner

Creating an abstract galaxy from scratch

Stetsasonic

Nadi Osman

with the quartet asserting their dominance in the chart album after album

First is a reprise of "Anti-Socialist

cellos or flutes on site

Members quit

Shemie chronicles a wandering soul tangled in it's own dark orbit

unexpected changes from major to minor keys

Title track 'Wedding Bells' is the standout though