This week, Sasami announced her self-titled debut album, out March 8th via Domino Records. With the news, comes a video for the single, “Jealousy.” Sasami will be taking her new album on the road, starting February 27th in Berlin, Germany.

Sasami on the video for “Jealousy”:

“The whole “Jealousy” video was born out of inspiration from the scene ‘Bruce Vs Chocolate cake’ from the 1996 film adaptation of Roald Dahl’s ‘Matilda.’ I wanted it to be kind of like a filmed version of a weird play. I am a witch creature and my sidekick, Gobby, and I dance in our painted backdrop lair and plot mischief. Luckily our havoc bears liberating ends as the bewitched are released of their socially-expected, self-imposed obsessions and rituals. I wanted to make something grotesque and creepy and funny of course.”

Sasami talks about Sasami

“Ok, maybe they’re more like over-dramatic drafts of texts that you compose in the Notes section of your iPhone, but either way, they come from a place of getting something off my chest.” In an Instagram post announcing the release of “Callous,” a haunting ballad chronicling the disintegration of a relationship over wrenching guitar wails, she sums up the inspiration behind her engrossingly confessional debut more bluntly: “Everyone I fucked and who fucked me last year.”

Sasami
Sasami
Domino Records
Tracklisting

1. I Was A Window
2. Not The Time
3. Morning Comes
4. Free
5. Pacify
6. At Hollywood
7. Jealousy
8. Callous
9. Adult Contemporary
10. Turned Out I Was Everyone

Sasami
Live Dates

2/27 – Berlin, Germany @ Badehaus
2/28 – Hamburg, Germany @ Aalhaus
3/2 – Copenhagen, Denmark @ Bakken
3/4 – Brussels, Belgium @ Botanique Witloofbar
3/5 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Paradiso (Upstairs)
3/6 – Paris, France @ Pop-Up Du Label
3/8 – London, UK @ The Lexington
4/3 – Los Angeles, CA – The Echo
4/9 – San Francisco, CA – Rickshaw Stop
4/11 – Portland, OR – Doug Fir
4/12 – Seattle, WA – Barboza
4/13 – Vancouver, BC – Wise Hall
4/17 – Denver, CO – Lost Lake
4/18 – Omaha, NE – Reverb
4/19 – Des Moines, IA – Vaudeville Mews
4/20 – St. Paul, MN – Amsterdam Bar and Hall
4/21 – Milwaukee, WI – Colectivo (Back Room)
4/23 – Chicago, IL – Schubas
4/25 – Toronto, ON – Baby G
4/26 – Montreal, QC – Quai Des Brumes
4/27 – Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall
4/29 – Philadelphia, PA – PhilaMOCA
4/30 – Brooklyn, NY – Elsewhere
5/3 – Washington, DC – DC9
5/4 – Pittsburgh, PA – Club Cafe
5/5 – Columbus, OH – Rumba Café
5/6 – Nashville, TN – The Basement
5/8 – Dallas, TX – Three Links
5/9 – Austin, TX – Barracuda