[Cover photo credit to Rae Mystic]

Shunkan, the LA-based Rock project of Marina Sakimoto, has announced her third studio album, Kamikaze Girl, out May 6, 2025 via Houston’s Rite Field Records. Recorded last year in Joshua Tree, CA and produced by Alex Newport (Death Cab for Cutie, Melvins, The Mountain Goats), the record “inspects how to put things back together after falling apart.”

Heralding the announcement is the single “Hellbound,” a track that “expects the worst and wants the best.”

Sakimoto says about the new track:

I like ‘Hellbound’ as the first track of the album because it feels like the initial descent into a transformative period for me. There’s that space in your life where you start sensing something (or someone) may not be the best for you, but the allure of it keeps you around because…what else do you have to lose? Nihilism—mixed with a lost sense of identity—is one hell of a drug. Sonically, I wanted this track to reflect what I was listening to at the time, which started with revisiting the ‘Lost in Translation’ soundtrack while I was in Japan.

Shunkan signed to Rite Field Records last Fall and quickly began working on her first full-length offering since 2019’s Cumberland Falls. Sakimoto debuted the project in 2014 with her first EP, Honey, Milk and Blood. Shunkan’s first LP, The Pink Noise, arrived in 2014.