Tei Shi dropped two new tracks this summer, “A Kiss Goodbye” and “Red Light,” and today she’s officially announcing her sophomore album, La Linda, the follow-up to 2017’s Crawl Space. Tei Shi has a new song to go along with that announcement, a collaboration with Blood Orange’s Dev Hynes and the producer Noah Breakfast, called “Even If It Hurts.”
Here’s what Tei Shi said about the track and its Cara Stricker-directed video:
I made this song with two of my closest collaborators – Dev Hynes (Blood Orange) and Noah Breakfast. It came together in pieces between LA and New York but sprouted from the lyrics Dev and I kept on singing – ‘even if it hurts…I just don’t mind’. The concept is really the realization and acceptance that pain is a natural consequence of love. It’s a duet about the ways in which we make ourselves vulnerable to those we love, sometimes at a high cost. The video was directed by Cara Stricker and with an incredible and almost exclusively female creative crew. It features a multitude of amazing designers like Collina Strada, Vaquera, Christopher John Rogers, Mugler, Maryam Nassir Zadeh . I wanted to capture the romantic and melancholic elements of the song but put them in a world that feels removed from the every day, its own little odd paradise where Dev and I existed parallel to one another but never really together.
Watch and listen below.
TRACKLIST:
- 01 “Addict”
- 02 “Alone In The Universe”
- 03 “Even If It Hurts” (Feat. Blood Orange)
- 04 “Matando”
- 05 “Twilight”
- 06 “When He’s Done”
- 07 “Red Light”
- 08 “Thief”
- 09 “No Juegues”
- 10 “A Kiss Goodbye”
- 11 “We”
La Linda is out 11/15 via Downtown Records.
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