**PRE-ORDER WILL SHIP ON OR AROUND OCTOBER 8, 2021**
+ SOPHOMORE SOLO ALBUM FROM JULIA SHAPIRO (CHASTITY BELT)
+ CO-PRODUCED BY JULIA SHAPIRO & JAY SOM
+ FIRST 200 FANS TO PRE-ORDER THE VINYL WILL RECEIVE AN 11x17 FOLDED POSTER & THREE JULIA SHAPIRO BRANDED ERNIE BALL GUITAR PICKS.
The coke bottle clear variant is limited to 1,750 copies worldwide. The LP includes a double-sided insert and a download card.
Includes digital pre-order of Zorked.
You get 2 tracks now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
shipping out on or around October 15, 2021
Purchasable with gift card
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
**PRE-ORDER WILL SHIP ON OR AROUND OCTOBER 8, 2021**
+ SOPHOMORE SOLO ALBUM FROM JULIA SHAPIRO (CHASTITY BELT)
+ CO-PRODUCED BY JULIA SHAPIRO & JAY SOM
CD housed in a gatefold CD jacket.
Includes digital pre-order of Zorked.
You get 2 tracks now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
digital album releases October 15, 2021
item ships out on or around October 8, 2021
Purchasable with gift card
$14USDor more
Cassette + Digital Album
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+ CO-PRODUCED BY JULIA SHAPIRO & JAY SOM
The cassette is limited to 250 copies and comes with a download coupon.
Includes digital pre-order of Zorked.
You get 2 tracks now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
digital album releases October 15, 2021
item ships out on or around October 8, 2021
edition of 250
Purchasable with gift card
$7USDor more
Streaming + Download
Pre-order of Zorked. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
Purchasable with gift card
releases October 15, 2021
$8USD or more
T-Shirt/Apparel
White corduroy dad hat with "Zorked"design embroidered in black
shipping out on or around October 4, 2021
$30USDor more
Limited Edition Watermelon Color Vinyl
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
**PRE-ORDER WILL SHIP ON OR AROUND OCTOBER 8, 2021**
+ SOPHOMORE SOLO ALBUM FROM JULIA SHAPIRO (CHASTITY BELT)
+ CO-PRODUCED BY JULIA SHAPIRO & JAY SOM
+ FIRST 200 FANS TO PRE-ORDER THE VINYL WILL RECEIVE AN 11x17 FOLDED POSTER & THREE JULIA SHAPIRO BRANDED ERNIE BALL GUITAR PICKS.
Exclusive Suicide Squeeze Records variant limited to 250 copies worldwide on watermelon color vinyl. The LP includes a double-sided insert and a download card.
Includes digital pre-order of Zorked.
You get 2 tracks now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
this is the end
of an illusion
put it to rest
end the confusion
tell me the truth
help me to see it
so I can change
finally breathe in
holding onto something concrete
but there’s freedom in falling
painted a picture that you liked
it wasn’t real, it wasn’t right
such a relief
totally drain me
is this the end
of hoping
what was once true
can now be rejected
everything real
was just a reflection
holding onto something concrete
when there’s freedom in falling
painted a picture that you liked
it wasn’t real, it wasn’t right
close my eyes now I’m not having any fun
my voice is melting and I’m staring at the sun
take me
to awful places now
feel free
to help me come back down
come with me
sink with me
holding onto something that I should forget
has it happened blurry memories of yet
looking
forward to my past
sinking
into what I lack
come with me
melt with me
3.
Wrong Time
4.
Someone
5.
Reptile! Reptile!
6.
Pure Bliss
7.
Hellscape
8.
Do Nothing About It
9.
Zorked
10.
Hall of Mirrors
about
Zorked (adj.) - what happens when you end up thunderbaked, as in extremely stoned–or in any situation where you feel not sober. You can feel so tired you’re zorked. In fact, any state, so long as you’re a little out of it, qualifies. And Julia Shapiro, of Chastity Belt, Childbirth, and Who Is She?—much like everyone on this earth with a pulse—was zorked on more than one occasion in 2020. In March, she packed up her things and traded Seattle’s late-winter gloom for the perennial sunshine and seemingly endless opportunity of Los Angeles only to be forced into near-total isolation. With nowhere to go and nothing to do, she began working on her second solo album, Zorked. On the resulting batch of songs, we’re given Julia’s vision of Los Angeles: a wasteland melting in slow-motion, a place to commune with ghosts and warped legacies.
Living within earshot of a man who spent his entire 2020 singing karaoke for over 10 hours a day, Julia could write, record, and play an album’s worth of instruments without fear of noise complaints. Her roommate Melina Duterte (Jay Som) transformed their house into a viable home studio, making it easy to fully realize the sound in her head, even at the height of a global lockdown. Taking things a step further, Melina agreed to co-produce the record, pushing Julia to make these new songs sound less like Perfect Version, her first solo album, or like the songs she performs in Chastity Belt. At the peak of her uncertainty and discomfort, she jumped into the deep end in search of something new—and found power in heavy sounds.
This is evident in the first few seconds of album opener “Death (XIII).” Taking newfound inspiration from the namesake Tarot card, drone metal, and shoegaze, Julia layers walls of guitars, bass chords, and programmed drums. “Come With Me,” the album’s lead single, takes inspiration from a mushroom trip gone bad. “Take me to awful places now,” she sings, envisioning heat death as her own eyes stare directly into the sun. On “Wrong Time,” shimmering guitars smolder and levitate, yet she finds herself “stuck inside this hole I’ve dug.” That said, these songs aren’t unbearably sad, nor has Julia become any less of a merciless observer of human behavior. By album closer “Hall of Mirrors,” she’s come full circle. Over fingerpicked guitar, the sense of lost identity becomes all-encompassing. It’s the sound of a life lived in servitude to digital screens and the psychic damage invisibly done along the way.
Though Julia Shapiro found herself in a near hermit-like existence, writing and recording almost all of the album’s instruments herself and struggling to navigate her place in a city and world rendered nearly comatose, she maintains a sense of humor about all of it. At the very least, “It’s funny to force people to have to say Zorked out loud. Any other title sounded pretentious.”
credits
releases October 15, 2021
Written and performed by Julia Shapiro
Produced and engineered by Julia Shapiro and Melina Duterte
Mixed by Melina Duterte
Mastered by Sarah Register
Trumpet on "Reptile! Reptile!" by Melina Duterte
Violin on "Zorked" and "Hall of Mirrors" by Annie Truscott
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