In love and in music, there’s two sides to everything – so as a counterpart to her first EP ‘For The Left Behind’, Lewin is now releasing ‘For The Leaving’.
Lewin had an album full of goodbye-songs that, for a while, were too painful to release.
She had recorded them with her love at the time, but as soon as the mixes were done, they broke up. Afterward, Lewin could hear how she had unknowingly predicted their coming break-up in all her lyrics. Now, she is releasing these vulnerable songs in three steps.
The four songs on ‘For The Left Behind’ stem from the early days of their time together – a growing romance, but a feeling of unease throughout – Lewin feels she will be left behind and sings to brace herself for when it happens. ‘For The Left Behind’ was released in September 2019.
‘For The Leaving’ the upcoming EP is the other side of the coin; these four tracks were written slightly later, and signify a shift in perspective. We hear someone contemplating leaving a relationship that feels like its outlived its time, a love that she has ‘made work’ but does not work on its own. Rather than letting things happen, like she did in ‘For The Left Behind’, she seems to embrace a more active perspective, where she will be the one to leave.
In Don’t You Dare we can clearly hear a sense of empowerment and anger that was absent on the earlier EP. “Don’t you dare tell me to smile when you leave me now”: Within a landscape of woozy guitars and open chords, Lewin is exploring the possibility of freedom that a split would offer, and how her love won’t have anything to say about her feelings once the relationship is over.
The full album will be released in March 2020 and connects both EP’s with five extra tracks.
