The Check-in with Natalie Lew

The Check-in with Natalie Lew

30:38 May 9, 2025
About this episode
Natalie Lew is a Seattle based songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and founding member of Sea Lemon. Sea Lemon’s dream fuzz pop debut LP, Diving For A Prize, is out May 30th via Luminelle Recordings.  Natalie shares her performance adjacent music experience growing up in the Seattle music scene and how a move to New York led her to the picking up a guitar and singing. Joe and Natalie discuss the observational approach to her lyrics, and she explains the refrain on the song Stay, a current single.  Natalie tells us how Crystals (feat. Ben Gibbard) was transformed from a big rock song to a darker shoe gazer and why the drums (Sean T. Lane) remain the center piece. We learn why the direction and sound of Diving For A Prize exposed a new musicality within herself and we hear a couple new tunes Sea Lemon Luminelle Records Tour Stories is now supported by @tandemdrums, maker of Drops drum mutes.  Joe’s absolute favorite drummute for live, rehearsal and the studio. visit ⁠Tandem Drums⁠ Please visit and support ⁠⁠Izotope⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Distrokid⁠⁠ for continued exclusive listener discounts. ⁠⁠Izotope⁠⁠ is the leader in audio repair, mixing and mastering. Ruinous uses ⁠⁠Izotope⁠⁠ and you should too. Trust us. The best way to get your music into the worlds ears is ⁠⁠Distrokid⁠⁠. Artist keep 100% of their royalties and their mobile app is smartly designed, easy to use and perfectly intuitive. Mentioned in this episode:IzotopeSchecter GuitarsDistrokid
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