“Sasami blends abrasion and delicacy on Squeeze”
“On her second LP, the Los Angeles musician swaps her debut’s shoegaze for more aggressive sounds—and creates her best songs yet”
“Squeeze is partly inspired by the Japanese yōkai folk spirit Nure-onna. Literally translated as “wet woman”, the creature is a vampiric deity that lures victims with a small bundle that looks like a baby. If a good person holds the child, she spares them, but if a bad person discards the child, she traps and then kills them. What drew SASAMI to the story was its multiplicity; how the Nure-onna ca”
“Sasami Ashworth’s second solo album melds two distinctively 1990s sound worlds as it asks: Can a song ever make it all the way to another person?”
