Jenny Lewis spoke with Rolling Stone recently at the Sundance Film Festival about her work scoring the film One Song. She told them that working on the film pushed her to start writing again after being on a sabbatical and that she that she plans to release an album this spring.
The upcoming album will be her first since 2008's Acid Tongue. "I'm mixing next week and this is all I'll say," she told them. "Until it's mixed I don't really want to talk about it, but it took a village."
She also talked about her exclusive Girls track, "Completely Not Me," co-written with Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmangli, which debuted on the season three premiere of the HBO series. "He wrote the music, and I wrote the melody, and the top line as it were, and I just learned what a top line was, and the music, and we spent a day with his friend Ariel at his studio in the Valley. We weren't able to do more than one song I originally wanted to do more songs with him but the Girls soundtrack was originally a great outlet for this one collaboration." She says she isn't sure whether the song will end up on the album.
As for the inspiration behind the album, she cites insomnia. "I was awake for a while. I'm superstitious, until I start mixing, I feel like when I start it then I will be able to actually speak of it. But I'm done recording, and I'm just mixing in LA."
More details other than a spring release have yet to be announced, but we will keep you updated as information becomes available. While you wait for the upcoming full-length, check out "Completely Not Me" here, and let us know what you think in the comments section below!
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