Seattle, WA dream pop/indie pop/shoegaze artist Sea Lemon (aka Natalie Lew) has announced the release of her debut full length album ‘Diving For A Prize‘.
Along with the announcement she has also shared the new single “Stay“, and its accompanying visuals. The record will be out on June 13 via Luminelle Recordings. Pre-order your copy here.
Natalie Lew grew up by the ocean, always harboring a fascination with the strange universes bubbling right below the surface. Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest (she currently resides in Seattle), the peculiar and miraculous environment around her, filled with tide pools and marine life, has seeped into her worldview and the music she makes as Sea Lemon. Imbued by both a sense of wonder and trepidation, Diving For A Prize is a haunting vision of Lew’s own creation, a vividly assembled snapshot of a place that is both fantastical and deeply curious.
The result of eight months of writing, Diving For A Prize was mainly produced and fleshed out in the studio with Lew’s collaborator Andy Park (Death Cab For Cutie, Deftones) in Park’s home studio in Seattle.
The twelve songs of the album often operate in this sphere between fantasy and real life, where it is easy to dream, almost desperately, that something out of the ordinary might occur, even if it means ignoring your gut instinct.
“When I make a song I think of it as its own little universe,” Lew explains. Inspired by artists like Enya, Caroline Palochek, Air and My Bloody Valentine, Lew’s “shoegaze but with pop structures” songs have a knack to be earworm-y when you least expect it, embedding themselves in the listener’s psyche. “With these songs, I wanted to find a place for myself in the world.” She adds.
Check out “Stay” below, followed by the album’s artwork and tracklist.
Sea Lemon ‘Diving For A Prize’ Tracklist:
- Thought For You
- Stay
- Silver
- Change Your Face
- Give In
- Blue Moon
- Sweet Anecdote
- Cynical
- Sunken Cost
- Rear View
- Crystals (feat. Benjamin Gibbard)
- In The Flowers
Photo taken from the artist’s Website
