{"product_id":"spellling-portrait-of-my-heart-lp-olive-green-vinyl","title":"SPELLLING 'PORTRAIT OF MY HEART' LP (Olive Green Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e LABEL: SACRED BONES RECORDS\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVINYL RELEASE DATE: 3\/28\/2025\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e2025\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVARIANT: Olive Green Vinyl LP\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn Chrystia Cabral's fourth album as SPELLLING, the Bay Area artist transforms \u003cspan\u003eher acclaimed avant-pop project into a mirror. Cabral's lyrics for Portrait of My \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHeart tackle love, intimacy, anxiety, and alienation, trading the allegorical approach \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eof much of her previous work for something pointed into her human heart. The \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ealbum's thematic forthrightness is echoed in it's arrangements, making it the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esharpest, most direct SPELLLING album to date. From the dark minimalism of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eher earliest music to the lavishly orchestrated prog-pop of 2021's The Turning \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWheel to this newly energetic expression of her creative spirit, Cabral has proved \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eagain and again that SPELLLING can be whatever she needs it to be. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe title track, with it's propulsive drum groove and anthemic chorus of \"I don't \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebelong here,\" is the most potent embodiment of the album's turn toward emotional directness. Once the main melody emerged, Cabral used the song as a tool \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eto process her anxiety as a performer and opted for a tighter, more rock-oriented \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecomposition. This transformation mirrors the album's broader shift toward energy \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand immediacy, driven by the core band of Wyatt Overson (guitar), Patrick Shelley (drums), and Giulio Xavier Cetto (bass), whose collaboration uncovers new \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003econtours of the SPELLLING sound. Cabral still writes and demos in isolation, but \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003epresenting the songs for Portrait of My Heart to her bandmates helped her discover \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etheir eventual lively, organic forms. So did working with a trio of producers-The \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTurning Wheel mixing engineer Drew Vandenberg, SZA collaborator Rob Bisel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand Yves Tumor producer Psymun. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKey guest contributions further shape the album. Chaz Bear (Toro y Moi) delivers \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSPELLLING's first duet on \"Mount Analogue,\" Turnstile guitarist Pat McCrory \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eturns Cabral's original piano demo for \"Alibi\" into the crunchy, riff-y version that \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eappears on the record, while Zulu's Braxton Marcellous gives \"Drain\" it's sludgy \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eheft. These parts aren't just incorporated seamlessly into the album; they feel like \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ean integral part of it's universe. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUltimately, though, Portrait of My Heart is nobody's record but Cabral's. She fearlessly draws the curtain back on parts of herself that she's never included \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ein SPELLLING before-her feelings of being an outsider, her overly guarded \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003enature, the way she can throw herself recklessly into intimate relationships \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand then cool on them just as quickly. \"It's very much an open diary of all those \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esensations,\" she says.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SECRETLY DISTRO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67647646236973,"sku":"SPELLLING-PORTRAIT-OF-MY-HEART-OLIVE-GREEN-LP-3595","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0711\/2910\/4685\/files\/16053.jpg?v=1792017528","url":"https:\/\/shop.altpress.com\/products\/spellling-portrait-of-my-heart-lp-olive-green-vinyl","provider":"Alternative Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}