Shura: “Getting muscles takes so long”
Shura discusses post lock-down anxiety, becoming a muscle mommy, 5-a-side with Leah Williamson and teasing her first album in six years.
WORDS EMILY CAMERON PHOTOGRAPHY SOPHIE WILLIAMS DESIGN JACK ROWE When I get on my Zoom call with Shura I’m immediately mortified by my setup – a grainy MacBook camera, grim lighting and a messy bedroom in the background embarrassingly juxtaposed to Shura’s HD top-left camera angle and ring light.
The perils of interviewing someone who became a streamer during the pandemic, I guess. A lot has changed for Shura since her last album, 2019’s forevher – and not just the streaming.
Having made a name for herself in 2015 with songs about heartbreak and sad-girl sapphic longing like ‘Touch’ and ‘2Shy’, forevher was about falling in love.
