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You may know Sari Lightman from a pair of bands with her twin sister Romy, the psychedelic rock, pop, and folk projects Tasseomancy and Lightman & Lightman. Today she's announcing her solo debut. Out next month, The Way I Saw You is produced by Hand Habits' Meg Duffy, who previously contributed to the 2024 Lightman & Lightman album Sister Smile. The album also features members of St. Vincent, Cola, Perfume Genius, and more. Its title track and opener is out today.
Full of wispy melodies and celestial harmonies, "The Way I Saw You" is an eerie, earthy folk song that will probably appeal to fans of modern peers like Bedouine and Jessica Pratt or 20th century English folkies like Bridget St. John. By the end, the title phrase becomes a sort of mantra. According to Lightman, the song is inspired by Eve Babitz:
A journalist sits across from the writer Eve Babitz, decades into Babitz’s reclusive period after an accident left her disfigured. She yearns to be remembered the way she was in her writing - sensual and carefree. To live in the rose, immortal, blossoming inside a body of work. There is a lot to be said about an Artists’ myth when in reality, the human experience is much messier, undignified - not to mention the cruelty pelted onto beautiful women as they age. Instead I went down a theological rabbit hole with the rose. I thought about Dante’s Paradise and all those feminine saints stashed in the petals, like an exquisitely scented sexy hotel. 'Let Eve live here' I thought."
Hear "The Way I Saw You" below.
TRACKLIST:
01 "The Way I Saw You"
02 "The Prize"
03 "Day of the Just Cause"
04 "Girl Bitten By A Lizard"
05 "Etty"
06 "Give It All Up"
07 "Rose is In Greece"
08 "Soon Came The Evening"
The Way I Saw You is out 6/26 via Night Bloom Records. Pre-order it here.
Romy Lightman
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