Shura (courtesy of the artist)
Panic attacks rarely leave people feeling good about themselves; often, once you're able to stop hyperventilating, they instill a source-less dread and the nagging feeling that your body and your brain might be conspiring to kill you. English singer Shura, however, was able to make a positive experience out of hers in the form of the title track of her debut album, Nothing's Real, according to an interview with Fader.Other tracks on the LP have received the remix treatment from artists such as Four Tet, Tourist, Delorean, and Blonde; but for the namesake of her first full-length, she called upon two producers she tells THUMP she's a "huge fan of": Norwegian space-disco dons Lindstrøm and Prins Thomas. "I've wanted them to remix something of mine for a super long time," she adds. "'Nothing's Real' is a song that is hugely inspired by disco which is why it felt perfect to ask them."As advertised, Lindstrøm and Prins Thomas pile on the disco like a Studio 54 regular who can just never have too many sequins, but not even the zero-gravity bassline can mask the original track's underlying sadness of a young woman singing about her existential crisis, the confusion of it all exacerbated by cyclones of whirling and bleeping sound effects, plus what Fader identified in an interview as "a sample of her three-year-old self screaming."It's sad disco you can't help but dance to, so cover your tears with glitter and give Lindstrøm and Prins Thomas's "Nothing's Real" remix a spin below.
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