Seattle’s Natalie Lew will release her new EP as “Sea Lemon” on August 25 via Luminelle Recordings. Lead single “Vaporized” is instantly likable jangly dreampop and comes with a very striking video directed by Otium and Lew. ““Vaporized” was the first song I wrote that I knew specifically would be for the new EP,” Lew says. “The song is all about my personal health anxieties and fear of death, which is something I’ve dealt with since I was little. The chorus’ ‘I thought he was buried alive/out of my mind/I thought she was vaporized/out of my mind’ is playing on the most unlikely, almost impossible ways to die because I think making light of my personal anxieties can help me from spiraling. I have insomnia a lot and wake up in the middle of the night, and used to have this tendency to read headlines while I was awake (a terrible idea), wondering if some horrible accident might happen to me too. The song instrumentally gets a little heavier and more intense each chorus, which implies this impending doom feeling that gets worse and worse as I worry.”
All her life, Natalie Lew had been a music fan, but she never envisioned herself gracing the stage as a musician. Growing up in Seattle, Lew was raised on local cultural touchstones like the Capitol Hill Block Party, KEXP, and the Museum of Pop Culture’s annual Sound Off (Battle of the Bands), which led her to believe she’d pursue a career working for a label, maybe as an A&R rep, anything to keep in close proximity with the thing she loved most. Though Lew grew up playing the piano, that was the extent of her musical prowess, at least until she moved to New York and started playing a roommate’s guitars, which led to playing rhythm guitar in a friend’s band. The experience opened up a new future for Lew who returned to the Pacific Northwest in the early days of the pandemic and, in isolation, wrote her very first songs which were released as an EP, “Close Up”, in 2022 under the moniker Sea Lemon in homage to the acid-yellow sea slugs who populate the waters of the Puget Sound. Now signed to Luminelle
Sea Lemon’s new single “Vaporized” is out now off of her upcoming EP “Stop at Nothing”, due out August 25th on Luminelle Recordings.
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