Blondshell has released “Fur Elise,” the latest single from her forthcoming third album, Violins, due September 25 via Partisan Records. The new track arrives as Sabrina Teitelbaum prepares for an extensive run of European, UK and North American tour dates, including a March 3, 2027 performance at San Francisco’s Castro Theatre.
“Fur Elise” serves as the closing track on Violins and finds Teitelbaum pushing further into the emotional and sonic contrasts that have become central to Blondshell. Crunchy rhythmic guitars and a warm low end build around her alto before expanding into dense, panoramic arrangements, maintaining the quiet-to-loud dynamics that have defined much of her work.
The song takes its title from Beethoven’s familiar piano composition, but Teitelbaum uses “Für Elise” less as a classical reference than as a metaphor for the uncertainty of adulthood. She imagines choosing the piece as wedding music despite knowing it would be the wrong song for the occasion, capturing the strange experience of trying to construct a future before knowing exactly what that future should look like.
“You’re trying to figure out what you want your life to look like, and what you want playing at your wedding, but you don’t even know where to start,” Teitelbaum explains. “You’re picking the wrong song.”
That uncertainty feeds into the broader themes of Violins. Across 11 songs, Blondshell moves beyond the romantic turmoil that shaped much of her earlier songwriting and turns toward troubled friendships, spirituality, the body, healing and the uneasy coexistence of violence and beauty. The album was produced by longtime collaborator Yves Rothman, mixed by Beatriz Artola and mastered by Emily Lazar.
“Fur Elise” follows previously released Violins singles “Heart Has To Work So Hard” and the album’s title track. Musically, the record draws from Teitelbaum’s established alternative rock vocabulary while widening its frame. Influences cited around the album include Gang of Four, Teenage Fanclub, The Go-Betweens, Sade, Leonard Cohen and Pavement.
“This record’s heavy in a way,” Teitelbaum says. Her approach to writing, however, has become less literal. “There’s more imagery. But my main goal with this record was to have songs that hit hard. I wanted big lead lines.”
Violins follows Blondshell’s 2025 album If You Asked For A Picture, which appeared on year-end lists from publications including Vogue, Billboard, Rolling Stone, NME, Alternative Press and FLOOD Magazine. Its single “T&A” was also named No. 20 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 100 Best Songs of 2025.
Following a December tour across Europe and the UK, Blondshell will return to North America in early 2027. The run begins February 28 at The Observatory North Park in San Diego before heading to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington, Boston, Montreal, Toronto and Brooklyn.
For Bay Area fans, Blondshell will perform at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco on March 3, 2027, bringing Violins to one of the city’s most distinctive stages.
Violins arrives September 25 via Partisan Records.
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