070 Shake‘s third studio album has landed at last. A sonic spiral of synths and percussive paranoia, Petrichor is a raw look into Shake’s conscious, on which Lily-Rose Depp and other existential qualms weigh heavily. With features coming from JT, Cam and Courtney Love, the 13-track delivery sees Shake master her craft, mixing melancholy lyricism with haunting instrumentals and some of her best production yet.
Shake hosted a black-tie-affair-type of Petrichor listening party and live ballet show last week in Los Angeles, a dress code that defines the sound of the album as well: eery and elevated.
Opening offering “Sin” sets the stage for the ethereal journey that is Petrichor, which sounds like a more evolved version of 2022’s You Can’t Kill Me with a more confident (and maybe slightly jaded) Shake. Further down the lineup, Shake presents a plethora of dual-parted tracks like the sole pre-release single “Winter Baby / New Jersey Blues,” such as “Pieces Of You and “Vagabond.”
Also serving as an exploration into connections of all kinds – human-to-human or human-to-alien, included – Shake adds texture onto nearly every track’s outro, tacking on a snippet of someone speaking or switch-up of synths or strings. It sounds like it should be played in a church.
JT contributes to “Into Your Garden,” which opens with over a minute-long building piano solo before Shake even hops on the mic, with Love featured on “Song To The Siren” and Cam on the more hopeful-hued “Never Let Us Fade.” Find the full tracklist listed below.
SIN
ELEPHANT
PIECES OF YOU
VAGABOND
LUNGS
INTO YOUR GARDEN FT. JT
BATTLEFIELD
WINTER BABY / NEW JERSEY BLUES
SONG TO THE SIREN FT. COURTNEY LOVE
WHAT’S WRONG WITH ME
BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS
NEVER LET US FADE FT. CAM
LOVE
Stream Petrichor on all DSPs now.
