On Violins, Bombshell's confidence grows to a greater extent yet, with Sabrina Teitelbaum moving out of her comfort zone both musically and lyrically to craft something in a more cohesive artistic voice

On her latest album as Blondshell, Sabrina Teitelbaum is more focused than ever on how her sense of self has evolved

On Violins, Blondshell looks beyond troubled relationships, turning her sharp lyricism towards friendship, femininity and the things that stay with us

The sequencing leaves something to be desired. Halfway in, Violins slows to a crawl and there’s barely enough momentum to salvage the pace by “Fur Elise”

Guitars continue to drive her forward, forceful and reflective as she centres her lyrical focus not on romance, but on a spectrum of relationships: ones shared with friends, social norms, femininity and herself

Sabrina Teitelbaum’s third album explores new subject matter while maintaining her signature sound

While trying to find and assert herself, the song has her imagining walking down the aisle to Beethoven's Für Elise, even though no one, including her, would pick it as a wedding song

An often-delicate inward vision that pairs frustration with beauty

It's in her ability to take the everyday experience and turn it into an epic noise that Violins finds its sweet spot

NEW LA alt-rock singer Blondshell trades plain-speaking lyricism for something more abstract, while Irish rock band Gurriers cut through the noise with their ambitious second album

This is an artist widening her frame without losing her bite. It’s confident, a little wistful, and often loud in all the right places

On her third album, Sabrina Teitelbaum fights to strike a balance between savage beauty and jagged home truths

Everything great about Blondshell is present on ‘Violins’, but it feels sharper, more adventurous and more assured then ever before

It would be unfair to call Violins Blondshell’s finest work to date, given the strength of her previous albums. What’s clear, though, is that it’s every bit as good as what came before