shishi - Nearly Happily Ever After - 1LP

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Nearly Happily Ever After, a novel reflection of the world in a state of chaos. It’s the kind of music that makes you want to dance, even if the lyrics can bring you to tears.
It took two years to make - which is almost as long as the pandemic tested our patience. Perhaps that’s why the trio – Victoria, Benadetta and Maria Rosa – found solace in music and allowed their songs to become self-reflective diaries.

They touch on a variety of themes: from gloomy birthdays to the sense of losing control of your life; from family issues to the stress of burning out - a familiar feeling for everyone navigating modern society.

“Our albums are documentaries. Nearly Happily Ever After is a confession and continuation of reacting to everything boiling inside and outside of us,” says Victoria. “We hoped our next album would be brighter, however, the songs reflect the emotional state of our world today. So it’s a lot gloomier.”

The tracks help shishi in their search for answers to some of the heaviest questions: why is the world so dark and unfriendly? What are we doing wrong and where does this chaos come from?

Offering up a blend of noisy drum beats, pleasant guitar lines and tight vocal harmonies, shishi have crafted a vividly original album overloaded with garage-rock-postpunk-Pixies-Slits-whatever grooves.

In Maria Rosa’s words, “It’s about all of us, about our absurdly ridiculous world and every mountain we manage to conquer. You won’t find many love stories in this album, but you will come across questions relevant to nearly every person on this planet.”