🎧 Approved: Shura

British singer-songwriter and producer Shura said most pop music is “too confident” - so she made her own.

Her new single ‘Richardson’ is a lulling reflection on isolation. It’s a track that’s simple in its construction - just a laid-back groove adorned with soft guitar licks and flurries of keys - yet it carries a pit in your stomach kind of weight. 

Written during long, aimless walks around Brooklyn, Shura used the time to process the emotional distance she was experiencing. The song has a meditative quality, mirroring those walks where time seems to stretch out in solitude.

The track features Cassandra Jenkins, whose album ‘An Overview On Phenomenal Nature’ was one of the few Shura could listen to during that period of high stress. Bringing her sadness full circle, Jenkins’ voice accompanies hers in lush harmony, the same way it did back then.

Shura explains, “I fell in love with Cassandra’s record at a low point in my life. It felt like an armchair I could crawl into. It accompanied me on long walks I took around my apartment in Greenpoint. I always knew I wanted to work with Cassandra on something”. 

“After a few conversations”, she adds, “it became obvious to the both of us that it had to be this song. That Cassandra would accompany me here. A song about walking, thinking, and trying to find comfort somewhere, as Cassandra’s voice accompanied me on those walks then”.

🎧 Watch the video for Richardson featuring Cassandra Jenkins below