Blondshell – Fur Elise
The main concept for “Fur Elise” by Sabrina Teitelbaum was a single image of herself walking down the aisle in her wedding dress to Beethoven’s Fur Elise. She knew that no one has ever got married to this piece. This difference between the music she wanted to play at her wedding and what she ended up with is how the entire album works. “Fur Elise” will close Violins, the third full-length from Blondshell due to release on September 25th through Partisan Records.
It follows Violins (W26) and Heart Has To Work So Hard (W21).
What I really enjoy about this song is that it doesn’t try to disguise or downplay the anxiety that it talks about. “It’s like you’re trying to determine what you want your life to be like and what you want to be played at your wedding, but you have no idea where to begin,” Teitelbaum has said. “And then you pick the wrong song.” Violins will run eleven tracks, and, according to Teitelbaum, expands its scope of focus from the relationship destruction that filled both of her first two records, and looks toward friendship, religion, the body and the slow process of recovery/repair.
