Vinyl LP pressing. When Julia Shapiro flew home from a canceled Chastity Belt tour in April 2018, everything in her life felt out of control. Dealing with health issues, freshly out of a relationship, and in the middle of an existential crisis, she realized halfway through a tour supporting her band's third album I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone that she was going through too much to continue. "I was really struggling; I was really depressed. I felt like I couldn't sing or be a person," Shapiro recalls. "At that point I couldn't even imagine playing a show again, I was so over it." Returning home to a newly empty Seattle one-bedroom apartment, Shapiro had wanted for a long time to learn how to record and mix her own music, and out of the uncertainty of the future of her music career and her health, she began to record the songs that would become Perfect Version, her solo debut for Hardly Art. What she created in the space of ten songs is an intimate and beautifully self-aware examination of feeling lost in the life you've created for yourself. It's an album of shimmering guitars and layered vocals that feels vast in the emotional depth it conveys and masterful in the way each song is intentionally crafted and recorded.
Tracklist
A1 Natural
A2 Parking Lot
A3 Shape
A4 Tired
A5 Harder To Do
B1 Around The Block
B2 A Couple Highs
B3 Perfect Version
B4 I Lied
B5 Empty Cup
Label: Hardly Art – HAR-114
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: USA & Canada
Released: Jun 14, 2019
Genre: Rock, Pop