On The Lips

• Track Listing

Consider this your invitation to Café Molly, a lounge bar like

they don't make them anymore. The lights are low, the martinis are ice cold,

the banquettes are velvet, and the stage is set for the electrifying talent of

whistler Molly Lewis. After the exotica stylings of The Forgotten Edge EP and

the tropicalia-indebted Mirage EP, Molly wanted to encapsulate the sound of

Café Molly for her debut album On The Lips, a dreamy tribute to classic mood

music, it conjures up misty visions of classic Hollywood jazz clubs, Italian

cinema soundtracks and lingering embraces between lovers. Recorded with

producer Thomas Brenneck of the Menahan Street Band at his newly-built

Diamond West Studios in Pasadena, and with something of an open door

policy during the sessions, a stream of acclaimed musicians ended up across

the album's 10 tracks, including Nick Hakim, Latin Grammy-nominated

Brazilian guitarist Rogê, Leland Whitty and Chester Hansen of Canadian

instrumental group Badbadnotgood, Chicano soul group Thee Sacred Souls

appear on the melancholy 'Crushed Velvet', experimental jazz pianist Marco

Benevento and El Michels Affair's Leon Michels. With her intoxicating

compositions, and wry brand of stagecraft (she might not be singing up there,

but she can sure tell a joke) Molly Lewis looks set to join her heroes in the

storied lore of the Los Angeles lounge scene and beyond. So pull up a chair,

order your favorite drink, and prepare to fall for On The Lips.