When Natalie Lew launched her solo project, Sea Lemon, she wasn’t trying to impress anyone. “When I released my first couple songs, it was honestly just for fun,” she says. “I had no thought about reaching a wide audience or a bigger demographic other than my friends, really.” Now, with her debut full-length album, Diving for a Prize, under her belt, the rising shoegaze/dream-pop artist has opened for major acts like Death Cab for Cutie and American Football and is signed to Luminelle Recordings, the indie label known for putting alt-pop duo Magdalena Bay on the map.

Lew first picked up her roommate’s electric guitar while living in New York and began playing rhythm guitar in a Brooklyn-based grunge/dream-pop band called Climates about a month later. In 2020, she and her now-fiancé moved

See Full Page