"Do you ever feel like you’re falling / I know I do / My body gets stuck underwater / I’m turning blue..."
Sea Lemon's urgent indie rock / shoegaze pop track "Vaporized" from her upcoming EP, "Stop At Nothing", out 8/25 on Luminelle Recordings, feels vast and dreamy. Pushed along with tactile guitar lines that bring to mind hints of Skater punk and Goth pop atmospheres at the same time also stirs in 90's jangle pop undercurrents, post punk and twee iterations.
The dreaminess can also feel dark in the hands of Seattle’s Natalie Lew (aka Sea Lemon). The poetry here, "And I know that I say that I’m fine / but It sticks with you / Try hard to remember I’m happy / Yeah I’m trying to...", might suggest pushing down depressive thoughts, dealing with feelings by stuffing them down or engaging in dark wish fulfillment.
Ha, I might be wrong on all counts though and, anyway, the sheer sonic wanderlust makes me want to run away or towards better times. In this sense, it is felt with empowerment, with healing at all costs.
I dig the sound here. A lot. Also enjoying the filmic Official Video.
"Yeah I’m trying to / I thought he was buried alive / Out of my mind / I thought she was vaporized / Out of my mind / Out of my mind / Out of my mind..."
-Robb Donker Curtius
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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.
Sea Lemon, seattle, indie rock, bedroom pop, post punk, goth pop, shoegaze, alt pop, "Vaporized" (Official Video), Luminelle Recordings, twee, jangle pop, goth pop, singer songwriter Natalie Lew,
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.
Sea Lemon, seattle, indie rock, bedroom pop, post punk, goth pop, shoegaze, alt pop, "Vaporized" (Official Video), Luminelle Recordings, twee, jangle pop, goth pop, singer songwriter Natalie Lew,
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