Hannah Lew - Hannah Lew (VINYL) | Mint (M) Mint (M)

    Hannah Lew
    Artist: Hannah Lew Format: LP Release Date: 5/1/2026 

    Label: Night School
    Vendor: Revolver
    Distributor: AMPED
    UPC: 5061041821394
    Genre: Rock
    Release Date: 5/1/2026
    Product ID: NSCO104.1

    Weight: .5 lb

Description

One foot out the door, another in the otherworld..."
So begins Hannah Lew's debut, self-titled solo record, soaked in imperious, wide-eyed pop songwriting and a girl-group/post punk aesthetic that belies the artist's history in the U.S. underground. A towering, hook-laden album, it's infused with an optimism and surrealism that conversely deals with the times we find ourselves in. Recorded at home in Richmond, CA and in The Best House studio with Maryam Qudus in Oakland CA, with the assistance of a crack team of West Coast musicians, this album sees Hannah Lew stepping out from behind the legacy of her two groups Grass Widow and Cold Beat. While musically bearing similarities with her previous work, Hannah Lew is a bold leap into direct pop territory, making ample use of a vocal style that teases out the inherent melancholy in her melodies. Mastered by Sarah Register, each song is a perfectly honed nugget that frequently pulls the heart in two directions at once. Themes of change, breaking up, shattering old ways of being are shot through the record. For the front cover, a photograph of the artist's face was printed, ripped up and re-assembled, resembling the creative process embarked upon by Lew for her first "solo" material. The album feels instinctual, almost dream-like in it's assemblage of sweeping synths and pulsating, propulsive drum machine beat patterns with Lew's vocal performances sensitive and caressing over the top. Increasingly relying on the subconscious and dreams to guide her creative process, Hannah Lew frequently abandons literal interpretations or linear narratives, the songs seeming to exist in a swooning, effortless flow-state while remaining emotionally hard hitting. In a departure from previous groups, her solo songs are guided by dreams and free association inspired by Dada and the Surrealist movement and sculpted afterwards. As such, the songs reveal themselves on repeated listens, revealing traces of heartbreak inspired by both personal and global elements-Lew regards the album as "a wartime album.

    Tracks
    Credits

    1 Time Wasted
    2 Sunday
    3 Another Twilight
    4 Siloed
    5 Replica
    6 Damaged Melody
    7 Move in Silence
    8 Distance of the Moon
    9 The Clock

• Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)
• Media Condition: Mint (M)
• Genre: POST PUNK
• Format Type: LP
• Released: 05/01/2026