Album Review: Blondshell, Another Picture

Another Picture is not Blondshell’s second entirely new album in 2025. Rather, it’s an expanded and reimagined look at May’s If You Asked For A Picture, featuring the original album along with a seven-track second record, which includes new songs, live versions and other acts covering her songs.

It’s not hard to see why the original album, the second from LA’s Sabrina Mae Teitelbaum under the Blondshell moniker, is already featuring on plenty of end-of-year best ofs. Its winning mixture of classic US rock and deeply confessional lyricism is superb, from the uber-catchy ‘23’s A Baby’ to the magnificent ‘T&A’, driving and yearning at the same time.

‘Arms’ washes over you in waves of electric guitar and regret, while ‘Change’ sounds like Kristin Hersh fronting Fleetwood Mac. ‘What’s Fair’, meanwhile, is a fuzzy guitar assault that sees Teitelbaum addressing her troubled relationship with her late mother in a brutally honest way: “You always had a reason to comment on my body / You're not a perfect person / Somethings always wrong /
But I know there's nothing less perfect to a girl than a mom.”

This expanded edition includes brand new track, ‘Berlin TV Tower’, as well as a stunning live take on ‘Thumbtack’. London rapper John Glacier joins in on a cracking ‘T&A’ and Gigi Perez duets on an acoustic version of ‘Arms’. Covers include Samia’s yearning take on ‘23’s A Baby’ and Folk Bitch Trio’s winsome ‘Change, while Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst delivers a deliciously downbeat take on ‘Event Of A Fire’.

Fantastic stuff.

8.5/10