Shamir — Photo: Danielle Waite Shamir couldn’t have seen a pandemic coming during the months of work that went into his latest record, but you would almost think he did.
As early releases, surprise releases, demos and mixtapes increasingly become the norm, Shamir seems poised to have a moment.
The Vegas-born artist, whose 2018 album Resolution also dropped without warning, is no stranger to this way of doing things.
Having long ago departed the electropop shimmer of his major label debut and embraced a fuzzy, grungy, DIY sound that sounds — in the best possible ways — like it was put together in an apartment, the release of the nine-track Cataclysm (★★★★☆) seems to have put him one step ahead of the curve.
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