Blood On The Silver Screen
Out March 7, 2025
Two Sasami’s exist in harmony. First is Sasami Ashworth, the conservatory-trained classical French horn player, producer, and composer—an artist with a studious approach to craft. And then there is all-caps SASAMI, the fearless performer and protagonist of her three increasingly audacious albums. For Blood On the Silver Screen, these two sides fused for her most epic and realized music to date: the all-out Sasami pop record. “This album is all about learning and respecting the craft of pop songwriting, about relenting to illogical passion, obsession, and guiltless pleasure,” Sasami says. “It’s about leaning into the chaos of romance and sweeping devotion—romanticism to the point of self-destruction.”
After establishing herself with the poised melancholia of her eponymous 2019 debut, Sasami embraced volume and control on 2022’s Squeeze, but her goal on Blood On the Silver Screen was to speak her truth with conviction by singing. Working with producers Jenn Decilveo and Rostam, with Sasami as sole writer, each Blood On the Silver Screen track viscerally captures a different thread of love, sex, power, and embodiment. “Pop music is like fuel,” Sasami says. “It’s just invigorating.”
She came to that fact while training to tour Squeeze—shows that required her to run around with her Mockingbird guitar, mosh, leap off amps—at the gym. Sasami found herself fascinated by the high-octane music that sustains physical activity. “The gym became this place where I would exercise and be studying the music,” Sasami says. Eschewing today’s pop zeitgeist, Sasami gravitated towards late aughts and 2010s pop a la Britney Spears’ Femme Fatale and Lady Gaga’s Born This Way, plus Kelly Clarkson, Katy Perry, and Sia. She was influenced by modern country storytelling, mixing vulnerability with humor, and the mood board also included Prince, Japanese city pop, and the stadium-sized, denim-clad iconography of Bruce Springsteen.
“I wanted to go all out with this album,” Sasami sats. “I wanted to, in my tenderness and emotionality, have the bravery to undertake something as epic as making a pop record about love. I hope it makes people feel empowered and embodied, too. It’s important to not box yourself in.”
Blood On The Silver Screen Tracklisting
1. Slugger
2. Just Be Friends
3. I’ll Be Gone
4. Love Makes You Do Crazy Things
5. In Love With A Memory (featuring Clairo)
6. Possessed
7. Figure it Out
8. For The Weekend
9. Honeycrash
10. Hom Interlude
11. Nothing But A Sad Face
12. Lose It All
13. The Seed
Mood Killer
Opening portals to higher realms has long been the meandering path of experimental pop artist Mood Killer (they/them) culminating last year in their debut album “ABRACADABRA.” Bursting onto the effervescent LA scene in 2019 with pioneering EP “Liquify”, Mood, aka Michael Zarowny, quickly drew in a circle of collaborators and fans across the pop and alt spectrum, crafting a pioneering and unique blend of theatrical electronic pop and mystical panache.
Their EP “Solidify” saw collaborations with Slipknot’s SID, The Garden’s Enjoy and Pussy Riot amongst others whilst Mood has performed with alt-pop greats Charli XCX, Caroline Polachek and Dorian Electra. With their ever-expanding musical journey taking inspiration from deep academic fixations on “sociology and the way our identities and realities are socially constructed”, the acclaimed EP, widely supported by Paper Magazine, Clash and more, opened up a fantastical sci-fi deep dive in an electronic music scene that so rarely touches upon the conundrum of the human experience.
2021 brought forth Mood’s divisive yet acclaimed official remix of Sine From Above feat. Elton John on Lady Gaga’s Dawn of Chromatica album. The song was one of the most talked about tracks and described by world renowned music critic Anthony Fantanto as, “one of the most insane things I think I’ve ever heard.” The same year saw the Happy Birthday single, music video, and bizarre 100-track album of remixes customized with popular names.
2024 saw the release of Mood’s acclaimed debut album “ABRACADABRA,” a kaleidoscopic dreamscape of buzzy electronic bass, jazzy horns, hyperpop and Hollywood foley studio sound effects. Mood effortlessly pulls you from an underground hyperpop club to a divine comedy that sits somewhere between Twin Peaks, Fantasia and Vaudeville Magic Show – the most unexpected colliding of worlds of a generation. Hitting multi-million streams and releasing self-directed music videos created with renowned production team “Wendyvision,” Mood celebrated a breakthrough year of transmutating the hyperpop space into a realm of mutli-dimensional possibility and is set to continue their journey through 2025 with US Touring, a magical variety show and the release of more musical mastery.
The fool’s journey continues in 2025 with Mood providing direct support for Sasami on their US Tour and the release of new music that sends the magic act careening into dance pop territories.
“This is one of the most insane things I think I’ve ever heard…” -Anthony Fantano on Sine From Above (with Elton John) – Chester Lockhart, Mood Killer & Lil Texas Remix
“Mood Killer is the queer antidote to your boring pop malaise.” – PAPER Magazine
