Molly Lewis

What Molly Lewis makes

Topics music, indie, composition, songwriting, live-performance

Molly Lewis’s compositions seem to float into our ears from distant shores. They’re otherworldly, drawn more from landscapes of dream than from anywhere you could find on a map. Her trademark whistle has graced recordings of everything from Schumann lieder and Brazilian jazz to Spaghetti Western ballads and noir lounge. Lewis’s pair of debut EPs, The Forgotten Edge (2021) & Mirage (2022) were produced by Tom Brenneck (Charles Bradley, Amy Winehouse) and received critical success, drawing praise from The New York Times and NPR, and landing Lewis a spot on CBS Sunday Morning. Now, Lewis and Brenneck have teamed up again for her debut full-length album, On The Lips. With something of an open door policy during the album sessions, a stream of acclaimed musicians joined Molly including Nick Hakim, Rogê, Leland Whitty and Chester Hansen of Badbadnotgood, Thee Sacred Souls, Marco Benevento and El Michels Affair’s Leon Michels. On The Lips is out February 16th, 2024 via Jagjaguwar Records.

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