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SHURA
Headline tour rescheduled for Winter 2015
Shows taking place across the UK in November & December

NEW DATES:

September 17 London Electric Brixton
November 29 Bristol Marble Factory
December 1 Brighton Old Market
December 2 Birmingham The Oobleck
December 3 Manchester Gorilla
December 5 Glasgow King Tuts
December 6 Leeds Brudenell Social Club
December 8 Nottingham Rescue Rooms

Shura announces new single, 'White Light’ (July 24th)
Radio 1’s Hottest Record In the World
Electric Brixton (September 17th) + European festivals also confirmed (including Field Day, Latitude, Reading & Leeds & Bestival)

"Shura sings for that soul-searing moment when hearts are not breaking, but broken" Pitchfork
“Soft, vaguely 70s/80s pop filtered through 90s R&B...Shura is the real deal” Fader
“Dreamy, melancholic… sit up and listen” Sunday Times Breaking Act
“Breathy, grungy and arresting” Elle
“The essential alt-pop heroine of 2015” Dazed & Confused

LISTEN: http://po.st/WhiteLightYT

Shura has announced plans for new single ‘White Light’, which premiered on Annie Mac’s Radio 1 show as Hottest Record in the World. This follows recent single ‘2Shy’, which was saw the Anglo-Russian singer and producer sell out her second ever London show (Village Underground), make the Radio 1 B-List, and receive unique interpretations from Warpaint (a rare remix) to Mumford & Sons (who covered ‘2Shy’ in the Live Lounge). With a Field Day slot to follow this weekend – and festivals to come at the likes of Latitude, Festival No.6, Bestival and Reading & Leeds – Shura will headline Electric Brixton on September 17th.

Epic but intimate, ‘White Light’ is a bold step out of the bedroom-based R&B balladry which has quickly earned Shura an impassioned audience, instead combining Arthur Rusell-inspired disco and a love for the undulating psych-rock of The War On Drugs to entrancing effect. Lyrically, the track started out about Shura’s twin brother, before picking up the sci-fi thread which runs through her visuals to describe an alien first glimpsed in the ‘Mass Effect’ game. Ultimately, though, ‘White Light’ is simply about being different, and joins the likes of ‘2Shy’ in embracing the social weirdness which actually makes you unique.

Just over a year ago, 23-year-old Shura's debut, gossamer-light take on keening pop, ‘Touch’, arrived as if from nowhere: a lyrical snapshot of that awkward friend-zone period post-break-up, it has since translated into over 15 million plays, a nomination for the BBC Sound Poll, and praise from Dev Hynes and Jungle to Kylie Minogue (despite not yet being released). “It's like someone's taken something really shiny and rubbed it with sandpaper,” Shura says of her instantly-recognisable sound, which – if ‘White Light’ is anything to go by - continues to evolve from her parents’ colourful musical household (Dad’s prog vinyl, her brother’s drum-and-bass DJ’ing) to Shura’s own learning curve on the acoustic open-mic circuit.

Quite how she’s ended up here is still a surprise to Shura herself. Born in London but raised in Manchester – with occasional trips to Russia, to visit her actress-mother’s homeland – Shura’s subsequent interest in electronic music was almost benched entirely: as a teenager, she played for Manchester City Girls for five years, before a “Lara Croft moment” saw her travel to South America after her studies. It proved to be a trip which not only broadened Shura’s personal horizons – “in the jungle, everything wants to kill you” – but also gave her the time to articulate a messy break-up into emotional, heartfelt Pop. Shura returned determined to throw herself into things, writing songs in the night-shift role of a video editor in Shepherds Bush, and recruiting her friends to kiss on camera for ‘Touch’: many of whom turned up one year later in ‘Indecision’, another striking treatment on sexuality, otherness and shared passions. And while ‘White Light’ in part explodes the personal out into a sci-fi fantasy, holding it together is the same hushed vocal, lyrical openness and alternative-spirit which first introduced Shura, and now takes her further into the unknown.

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