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Sasami: Blood on the Silver Screen review – a quirky move to the mainstream


The US artist segues from industrial metal to radio-friendly pop most memorable for its vividly relatable lyrics

S asami Ashworth ’s gentle indie rock debut, Sasami(2019),felt reasonably familiar to fans of her previous band, Cherry Glazerr; the bracingly industrial metal of 2022’s Squeeze less so. And the groin – apparently, Lana Del Rey-alike Nothing But a Sad Face On is about Eve’s mixed emotions after being “banished from the Garden of Eden for fucking a snake”. Most of Ashworth’s choruses linger on the ear no longer than a lost ladybird, and the deft Taylor Swift via Grimes-sounding production can’t conceal a dearth of durable material.

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