Shamir Releases RESOLUTION LP

2017's Revelations reestablished Shamir's position in music as an indie rock figurehead. On that album, and its follow-up 7", Room, Shamir prospected a new avenue of guitar driven hooky anthems that his previous, more dance-oriented work, had never explored. By delving into outsider music, country and punk, Shamir created raw and vulnerable tunes, stripped down to their emotional core. This new direction was vivdly acclaimed and he has spent the last year on tour demonstrating this new direction to assuming and unassuming fans alike. In typical Shamir butterfly fashion, never sitting still for more than a moment, he followed these releases, with an intentionally under-the-radar, self-released masterpiece, entitled Resolution.

Resolution dropped quietly in March, on Bandcamp only, sans PR campaign or label. It was quickly discovered and reviewed by Rolling Stone in a feature about the artist - "a gorgeously large rock album that sees Bailey's Revelations vision even more fully realized." Other super fans picked up on it too and finally at the behest of his management team, agents, friends and loved ones, Shamir has decided to make Resolution widely available to the public today.

The opening track and first single, "I Can't Breathe," is about racially motivated police brutality in America. It poetically, and tragically, recounts the deaths of Eric Garner and Tamir Rice. It's an anthem for, or perhaps a ballad to, the millions of citizens who are still being prevented from having their own voice. A hat tip to the Black Lives Matter movement, and all of the US civil rights movements before it, the tune effortlessly converts centuries of powerful, exasperated, yet somehow hopeful feelings into a song so uplifting it feels like almost like a prayer. Following track one, Resolution, continues to reinvent both author and listener. The opening riff of "Panic" sounds like a send up to mid 80's Homestead Records, perfectly merging with Shamir's unmistakable counter-tenor falsetto that sounds both aching and comforting simultaneously. Closer, "Larry Clark," is a love letter to the filmmaker who has defined urban teenage lust life for as long as any of us can remember. All eight tracks are standouts and summon the pinnacle of Shamir's songwriting career thus far.

In addition to being widely available on all digital platforms, Shamir has partnered with Vinyl Me, Please who will be doing a limited (deep red) vinyl press of the LP, in edition of 500.

SHAMIR

RESOLUTION

1. I Can't Breathe

2. 10/11

3. Panic

4. Dead Inside

5. The Things You Loved

6. Glass

7. Sanity

8. Larry Clark

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