SASAMI Teams Up with Clairo for New Single “In Love with a Memory”

Co-produced by Rostam, the track will appear on SASAMI’s forthcoming LP Blood on the Silver Screen.

SASAMI Teams Up with Clairo for New Single “In Love with a Memory”

Co-produced by Rostam, the track will appear on SASAMI’s forthcoming LP Blood on the Silver Screen.

Words: Will Schube

Photo: Lucas Creighton & Tanner Deutsch

January 28, 2025

Ahead of her new album Blood on the Silver Screen, SASAMI has recruited Clairo for a new Rostam-co-produced single entitled “In Love with a Memory.” Talk about an assemblage of single-name all-stars! The pop cut kicks off with arpeggiated runs and vintage synth melodies that slots SASAMI somewhere between Daft Punk and Kate Bush. Hell yeah, indeed. There’s an exhilarating guitar solo (lovin’ that tone!) and a great music video to boot. 10/10 execution all around.

“I grew up going to Japanese or Korean ‘noraebang’ private karaoke rooms with my mom, who was secretly the most incredible singer,” SASAMI shared, providing some backstory for the tune. “Most of her go-to numbers were oooold Japanese and Korean folk songs that low key kind of made me feel like I was in a horror film or David Lynch movie. I can picture my mom in a Julee Cruise–type setting—single, jazz lounge spotlight and cigarette smoke hanging stalely in the air—singing one of those old songs with the most gorgeously haunting vibrato and breathtaking vocal control. That’s the feeling I was tapping into when I started writing ‘In Love with a Memory’...”

Regarding her collaborators on the track, she added: “[T]here is a very timeless but relevant crooning feeling imbued in the song that I think was perfectly reflected by the production that Rostam and I orchestrated together. Claire has been a longtime, long distance friend and dream collaborator for me, so it was such a magnificent gift for her to lend her voice to the narrative. I really imagine this track as a cinematic duet with a ghost.”

Blood on the Silver Screen is set to arrive on March 7 via Domino Records. Check out the video for “In Love with a Memory” below, and pre-order the LP here.