Natalie Lew, the Seattle-based musician who records as Sea Lemon, has unveiled a new song called ‘Sweet Anecdote’. It follows ‘Crystals’, her recent collaboration with Death Cab For Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard. Check it out below.
“‘Sweet Anecdote,’ of all of my songs up until this point, was the shortest song to come from nothing to finished,” Lew shared in a press release. “I worked on it in my producer Andy’s studio, first with the underlying guitar and then with synths, quickly building the architecture of the song in an hour or so. Immediately after identifying the sort of eerie melodic structure of the song, I felt really compelled to write lyrics about being in love to the point of obsession.”
She continued, “The internet as a whole contributes to my feeling that I know too much about people, and I wanted to lean into the darker and more sinister sides of that with this song, as the narrator firmly believes the person they are watching is ‘the one.’ I love art (movies, music, books) that is unsettling—not overwhelmingly scary or horrifying—and Sweet Anecdote is meant to be an unsettling song in both melody and lyrics that I’m excited to share.”