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Molly Lewis debut album

Molly Lewis announces her debut album, On The Lips

14 November 2023, 12:17 | Written by Tyler Damara Kelly

Foremost professional whistler Molly Lewis has announced her debut album, On The Lips, alongside the brand new single, "Lounge Lizard".

Over the past year, Lewis has soundtracked one of the most emotional scenes in the Barbie movie alongside Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt, lent her singular talents to fashion houses like Chanel, Gucci, and Hermes, and supported Weyes Blood on tour.

The brand new single, "Lounge Lizard" comes accompanied with a music video directed by Ambar Navarro and conceptualised by Molly Lewis, inspired by Julie London’s apparition in 1956’s The Girl Can’t Help It.

"Wherever you happen to be, I’d like you to let this song soundtrack the next few minutes of your life. I hope that it accentuates your surroundings, gently transforming them into the sonic equivalent of having a personal sax player serenade you from the bath," she says of the song.

On The Lips was recorded with producer Thomas Brenneck (Menahan Street Band, Charles Bradley, Amy Winehouse) at Diamond West Studios in Pasadena. With something of an open door policy during the sessions, a stream of acclaimed musicians joined Molly across the album’s 10 tracks, including Nick Hakim, Latin Grammy-nominated Brazilian guitarist Rogê, Leland Whitty and Chester Hansen of Badbadnotgood, Chicano soul group Thee Sacred Souls on the melancholy "Crushed Velvet", experimental jazz pianist Marco Benevento and El Michels Affair’s Leon Michels.

The album features two covers: Dave Berry’s 1960s pop standard "The Crying Game" and Jeanette’s "Porque Te Vas" from 1974.

Tracklist:

  1. On The Lips
  2. Lounge Lizard
  3. Crushed Velvet
  4. Slinky
  5. Moon Tan
  6. Silhouette
  7. Porque Te Vas
  8. Cocosette
  9. Sonny
  10. The Crying Game

On The Lips is set for release on 16 February via Jagjaguwar.

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