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When Shura released her breakthrough track "Touch" in 2014, fans of her gauzy update of '80s pop and R&B immediately wanted more. Though 2015's White Light EP offered some tantalizing new songs, Shura kept listeners waiting another year for her first full-length. Fortunately, the results were worth it: Nothing's Real boasts richer songwriting and wider-ranging sounds than might have been expected. Where her earlier work was so atmospheric it threatened to float away, on Nothing's Real she grounds her fantasies with sounds that are often sleeker than those of her influences and contemporaries. Her updates on the past sound fresher than ever, whether she's borrowing from Madonna and Kylie in their respective primes on the glittery title track, or channeling some of Laura Branigan's chugging drama on "Make It Up." Similarly, Shura imbues her romantic daydreams with just enough truth to make them sting a little. "I'd rather lose it all for you/Than regret things I didn't do," she sings on "Tongue Tied," and it feels like a mission statement for the rest of the album (as well as anyone else who's head over heels). "What's It Gonna Be?" fizzes like first love even though Shura braces herself for the worst on the hook: "If you're gonna let me down/Let me down slow." And when she sings "You're just a fiction/Someone that I made up" on "What Happened to Us?", a heart playing tricks on itself has rarely sounded so joyous. The previously released songs serve as reminders why Nothing's Real was so anticipated. "Touch" and "2Shy" remain brilliant, soft-focus pop songs about love dreams so delicate that singing about them too loudly could destroy them, while "Indecision" and the expansive finale "White Light" bridge these tracks with the rest of the album. As ephemeral and powerful as a crush, Nothing's Real marks Shura as the kind of smart pop star the 2010s need.
© Heather Phares /TiVo
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David Wrench, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Mandy Parnell, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Daniel Moyler, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Marta salogni, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Steph Marziano, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Joel Laslett Pott, Producer, Guitar, Keyboards, Recording Engineer, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Luke Saunders, Keyboards, Programmer, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Shura, MainArtist - Alexandra Denton, Producer - Alexandra Lilah Denton, Keyboards, Programmer, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2016 Bsessi Limited
Tom Stanley, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - MARK STENT, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Carey Willetts, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mandy Parnell, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Michael Freeman, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Kirsty Mangan, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Daniel Moyler, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Geoff Swan, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Joel Laslett Pott, Producer, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Programmer, Recording Engineer, Synthesizer, Programming, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Luke Saunders, Guitar, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Shura, MainArtist - Matt Ritson, Drums, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Will Ritson, Drums, Percussion, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer - Alexandra Lilah Denton, Producer, Keyboards, Vocals, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Rachel Lander, Cello, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2016 Bsessi Limited
Greg Kurstin, Producer, Drums, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Recording Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Maureen McDonald, ComposerLyricist - MARK STENT, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Mandy Parnell, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Michael Freeman, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Daniel Moyler, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Geoff Swan, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - alex pasco, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Julian Burg, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Joel Laslett Pott, Producer, Guitar, Keyboards, Programmer, Recording Engineer, Synthesizer, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Shura, MainArtist - Alexandra Lilah Denton, Producer, Additional Producer, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2016 Bsessi Limited
MARK STENT, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Joel Pott, Synthesizer Programming, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Mandy Parnell, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Michael Freeman, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Geoff Swan, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Joel Laslett Pott, Producer, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Percussion, Piano, Recording Engineer, Synthesizer, Programming, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Shura, MainArtist - Alexandra Denton, ComposerLyricist - Alexandra Lilah Denton, Producer, Percussion, Vocals, Synthesizer, Programming, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2016 Bsessi Limited
David Wrench, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Tom Stanley, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Al Shux, Producer, Keyboards, Percussion, Recording Engineer, Synthesizer, Programming, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Mandy Parnell, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Alexander Shuckburgh, ComposerLyricist - Daniel Moyler, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Marta salogni, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Max Cooke, Bass Programming, AssociatedPerformer - Steph Marziano, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Joel Laslett Pott, Producer, Guitar, Keyboards, Recording Engineer, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Luke Saunders, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Shura, MainArtist - Alexandra Denton, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Alexandra Lilah Denton, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Ally Wilkinson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2016 Bsessi Limited
Stephen Roberts, Drums, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - David Wrench, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Tom Stanley, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Joel Pott, ComposerLyricist - Mandy Parnell, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Daniel Moyler, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Marta salogni, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Steph Marziano, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Joel Laslett Pott, Producer, Engineer, Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion, Programmer, Synthesizer, Synthesizer Programming, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Luke Saunders, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Shura, MainArtist - Alexandra Denton, Producer - Alexandra Lilah Denton, Keyboards, Vocals, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2016 Bsessi Limited
David Wrench, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Tom Stanley, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mandy Parnell, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Daniel Moyler, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Marta salogni, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Steph Marziano, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Joel Laslett Pott, Producer, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion, Recording Engineer, Synthesizer, Programming, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Luke Saunders, Guitar, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Shura, MainArtist - Alexandra Denton, Keyboards, Vocals, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer - Alexandra Lilah Denton, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Ally Wilkinson, Drums, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2016 Bsessi Limited
David Wrench, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Tom Stanley, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mandy Parnell, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Marta salogni, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Steph Marziano, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Joel Laslett Pott, Producer, Keyboards, Recording Engineer, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Shura, MainArtist - Alexandra Lilah Denton, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2016 Bsessi Limited
Greg Kurstin, Producer, Drums, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Recording Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Maureen McDonald, ComposerLyricist - Stephen Roberts, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - David Wrench, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Mandy Parnell, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Daniel Moyler, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Marta salogni, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - alex pasco, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Steph Marziano, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Julian Burg, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Joel Laslett Pott, Producer, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Additional Producer, Programmer, Recording Engineer, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Shura, MainArtist - Alexandra Denton, Producer, Additional Producer - Alexandra Lilah Denton, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2015 Bsessi Limited
Stephen Roberts, Drums, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - David Wrench, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Mandy Parnell, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Daniel Moyler, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Marta salogni, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Steph Marziano, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Joel Laslett Pott, Producer, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion, Recording Engineer, Synthesizer, Programming, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Shura, MainArtist - Alexandra Lilah Denton, Producer, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2016 Bsessi Limited
David Wrench, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Tom Stanley, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Joel Pott, Producer, Engineer, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion, Programmer, Synthesizer, Pianoforte, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Mandy Parnell, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Daniel Moyler, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Marta salogni, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Steph Marziano, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Shura, Producer, Keyboards, Percussion, Vocals, Synthesizer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alexandra Denton, ComposerLyricist - Ally Wilkinson, Drums, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2016 Bsessi Limited
Shura, MainArtist
℗ 2016 Bsessi Limited
Shura, MainArtist
℗ 2016 Bsessi Limited
Album review
When Shura released her breakthrough track "Touch" in 2014, fans of her gauzy update of '80s pop and R&B immediately wanted more. Though 2015's White Light EP offered some tantalizing new songs, Shura kept listeners waiting another year for her first full-length. Fortunately, the results were worth it: Nothing's Real boasts richer songwriting and wider-ranging sounds than might have been expected. Where her earlier work was so atmospheric it threatened to float away, on Nothing's Real she grounds her fantasies with sounds that are often sleeker than those of her influences and contemporaries. Her updates on the past sound fresher than ever, whether she's borrowing from Madonna and Kylie in their respective primes on the glittery title track, or channeling some of Laura Branigan's chugging drama on "Make It Up." Similarly, Shura imbues her romantic daydreams with just enough truth to make them sting a little. "I'd rather lose it all for you/Than regret things I didn't do," she sings on "Tongue Tied," and it feels like a mission statement for the rest of the album (as well as anyone else who's head over heels). "What's It Gonna Be?" fizzes like first love even though Shura braces herself for the worst on the hook: "If you're gonna let me down/Let me down slow." And when she sings "You're just a fiction/Someone that I made up" on "What Happened to Us?", a heart playing tricks on itself has rarely sounded so joyous. The previously released songs serve as reminders why Nothing's Real was so anticipated. "Touch" and "2Shy" remain brilliant, soft-focus pop songs about love dreams so delicate that singing about them too loudly could destroy them, while "Indecision" and the expansive finale "White Light" bridge these tracks with the rest of the album. As ephemeral and powerful as a crush, Nothing's Real marks Shura as the kind of smart pop star the 2010s need.
© Heather Phares /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 13 track(s)
- Total length: 00:58:30
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Shura
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Polydor Records
- Genre: Electronic
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