Sara Lew releases spacious and airy ‘Did You Ever Notice’
Danish underground artist Sara Lew releases ‘Did you ever Notice’ today, a final teaser before she releases her new album ‘LOUD’ on November 8th, 2024.
‘Did you ever Notice’ is an intriguing, spacious and airy song which talks about patterns in life and relationships. It’s about how we can be caught in life’s unforeseen, manifold trip wires, how we cope, and how we are affected by what comes after. The track follows Sara’s singles ‘Faces’, ‘Out of Nowhere’ and ‘Shady Light’, which received press and radio acclaim in both the UK and Denmark from the likes of Side33.dk, Fame Magazine, Amazing Radio, Louder Than War Radio and more.
Like her other singles, ‘Did you ever Notice’ features Sara Lew’s distinctive writing style, but leans further into her chilled, atmospheric tendencies, with sparse acoustic guitar replacing electric to make more room for her sweet vocal and evocative lyrics to take the forefront. Lew’s experiments with sound and production warp the track in places to elaborate on the delicate beautiful basis of the song, taking the listener away into a psychedelic dream and then bringing them back.
Born and raised in Roskilde with an English mother and Danish father, Sara Lewis Sørensen aka Sara Lew now lives in Copenhagen. Sara was trained as an electric guitarist at the Rhythmic Music conservatorium in Copenhagen. Throughout her career, Sara has always developed herself – and been a musical seeker – within jazz and improvisational music and through singer-songwriter, alternative rock and indie-folk-rock music.
The singles and ‘Did you ever Notice’ come from Sara Lew’s upcoming album ‘LOUD’, which is all based around themes about the development of life. It’s about when young people become adults and experience personal confrontations with the past, in which family stories of shame and taboo culture arise from the subconscious. The album explores how to rein in anger and grief, to keep your head above water and be a role model for your own children when life all falls apart and how to protect love and togetherness when everyday life rolls on. Essentially, it’s an album about living in the present moment with love for life’s stories, memories, moments of happiness but also life’s unforeseen, manifold trip wires.
On the album Sara Lew’s musical embrace is intimate, present and raw, with guitar sequences that scratch the enamel of the heart and hit the diaphragm. Sara writes heartbreaking, melodic songs about the trembling complexities of human life and unfolds her own Nordic brand of melancholic, melodic rock. Her style is a hybrid of singer-songwriter, alternative rock, jazzy improv and indie lo-fi which can hook the listener in from many different angles.
The music is played and arranged by Sara Lew (vocals and guitars), Anders Filipsen (keyboards/synth) and Jeppe Gram (drums) and the tracks were recorded by, and in collaboration with, sound and studio engineers Troels Bech Jessen and Casper Nyvang Rask. The album was produced by Sara Lew, and mixed & co-produced by Nis Bysted (Iceage & Choir of Young Believers), with mastering by Emil Thomsen.
