Press
Wonderland Magazine Premiere:
https://www.wonderlandmagazine.com/2024/11/07/sara-lew-echoes/
To build anticipation for “LOUD”, Sara has unveiled an expansive live video for her track “Echoes.” The video opens with a delicate instrumental arrangement, offering a haunting, cinematic glimpse into Sara Lew’s visionary artistry. As the visuals unfold, layers of resonant percussion, shimmering guitar strings, and gentle, melancholic piano notes meld with Sara’s rich vocal textures. Her vocal range is both expansive and nuanced, underscoring her deeply evocative, multifaceted approach to music.
Alt For damerne:
"Det er både smukt, melankolsk, hyggeligt og sørgmodigt. også lægger det op til eftertænksomhed. ... Det hele er tilsat Sara Lew's inderlige, rolige stemme der elegant favner både de dybe bløde toner og de høje af slagsen. Titelnummeret, 'LOUD', har en særlig skævhed, som går rent hjem hos mig" Alt For Damerne i bladet uge 47.
Spill Magazine Album Loud review:
https://spillmagazine.com/spill-album-review-sara-lew-loud/
The album title just might be a bit deceiving, as Lew’s jazzy guitar overtones go some more atmospheric places, than it might suggest. Her classical and jazz musical background is all over the place here, but Lew puts them firmly in place of her dream-pop songs that range anywhere between Mazzy Star and mellower side of Björk.
GAFFA Album Loud review:
https://gaffa.dk/anmeldelser/2025/januar/album/sara-lew-loud/
Sara Lew er værd at lytte efter på Loud… 10 overvejende langsomme, lavmælte og forholdsvis minimalistiske indierocksange … Sara Lews på én gang luftige, skrøbelige og intense vokal, men alligevel rejser musikken børster hist og her. ..
ASBO Magazin:
“Sara Lew’s LOUD: A Delicate Collision of Grief and Power…Known for her distinct blend of fragility and resilience, Lew’s work reaches a new depth in this record, embodying a raw energy that balances delicate vulnerability with a fierce primal force… LOUD immerses listeners in a world of evocative contrasts.”
GAFFA - Did you ever notice
https://gaffa.dk/nyheder-fra-gaffa/2024/september/har-du-hort-sara-lew-ude-med-ny-single/
What’s on - monday reviews:
https://whatson.guide/music-monday-new-albums-and-iconic-releases/
Sara Lew releases fragile and powerful new album “Loud” plus new live video for “Echoes”
“I’m actually impressed by what Sara has done as she has created this ever changing musical landscape by experimenting with vocals and instrumental. Sara’s singing voice has that echo effect added which makes a deeper atmosphere. Really enjoy this Smooth, delicate and jam packed with bass guitar melody. The more I listen to Sara the more she’s growing on me as an artist. I like how for her video for Echoes is one of those where it’s focus is solely on the band.”
Sound read six:
In the brisk movement of gale and breeze, a guitar and voice delicately step outside. Sara Lew offers a genuinely beautiful voice that sinks into the mind with clarity and ease. The soft imaginings drip like water over sparkling leaves of tone and vibrant colour. Harmonies emerge from the distorted sound of a solitary string, keyboard drifting ambience and ethereal echoes mingle on magical platforms of daydream. A folk and abstract greatness sits in quiet confidence among the natural momentum of the peaceful song. Sara Lew brings her seductive vocal charm to the alluring mystery of the gently breathing music.
“Danish guitarist Sara Lew (Sara Lewis Sørensen) has a distinctively spaced-out style, clanging and echoing, a dreamy feel, even on harsher tracks. Jazz flavoured but with rock intent, her new album, LOUD on Cloudland Records is atmospheric, her light voice weaving about the echoing FX-laden guitar.”
V13- Madia premiere:
https://v13.net/2024/09/sara-lew-did-you-ever-notice-song-premiere/
Fame Magazine Premiere:
Shady Light is a charming and dreamlike indie song. It talks about staying together as a couple while growing and learning from each other even though life moves forward with new goals and aspirations.
Check out the video that goes with this track. It’s a fun mix of footage from a road trip around Denmark – all shot on home cameras.
SIde33.dk Shady Light premiere:
https://side33.dk/sara-lew-hylder-holdbarheden/
Vents Magazine Out of Nowhere premiere:
https://ventsmagazine.com/2023/05/15/premiere-sara-lew-unveils-new-video-for-out-of-nowhere/
Album Sunday Morning
Interview P6 BEAT debut – 29-05-2019
GAFFA 4 Stjerner:
https://gaffa.dk/anmeldelse/136972/ekspressiv-ra-og-klaedeligt-kantet-poprock/
Undertoner 4,5 Stjerner:
http://www.undertoner.dk/2019/05/sara-lew-sunday-morning/
GFR 4 Stjerner:
https://www.gfrock.dk/sara-lew-sunday-morning/
Imperfect Fifth UK:
Interview – Vents Magazine
https://ventsmagazine.com/2019/05/07/interview-sara-lew/
SAME OLD PEOPLE:
XS Noize
https://www.xsnoize.com/track-premiere-sara-lew-same-old-people-listen-now/
Vents Magazine
https://ventsmagazine.com/2019/05/07/interview-sara-lew/
God Is In The TV
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2019/05/07/tracks-of-the-week-69/
Find A Song
https://www.findasongblog.com/post/184617834338/find-a-song-about-recognizing-that-even-though-we
High Violet
https://highvioletblog.wordpress.com/2019/04/24/sara-lew-releases-artful-same-old-people/
Skope Mag US
https://skopemag.com/2019/04/25/skopemag-news-for-april-25-2019-930-am-est
Top 40 Charts US
http://top40-charts.com/news.php?nid=146186
Undertoner.dk:
http://www.undertoner.dk/2019/03/fredagssinglr-sara-lew-does-anybody-listen/
Good Because Danish
http://goodbecausedanish.com/2019/03/sara-lew-does-anybody-listen/
For The Rabbits Premier:
https://fortherabbits.net/2019/03/21/premiere-sara-lew-does-anybody-listen/
Single YOU SAID
Bands Of Tomorrow Premier DK:
Clash Magazine Premier UK:
https://www.clashmusic.com/news/denmarks-sara-lew-enchants-with-you-said
Good Because Danish interview:
http://goodbecausedanish.com/2018/10/in-conversation-with-lew/
With Guitars ”Could LEW be the danish Anna Calv?”:
https://www.withguitars.com/could-lew-be-the-danish-anna-calvi/
Info og omtale Album Black Feathers 22 april 2016:
Interview med The Lake Radio d.10/5-2017
https://soundcloud.com/thelakeradio/the-lake-talks-excelsior-lew
GFRock.dk
http://www.gfrock.dk/reportage-fra-fredag-pa-spot-2016-del
“… og der er potentiale til at nå et internationalt publikum i LEWs lyd, der rummer elementer af både støj-rock, folk og trip-hop, som mødes i en velfungerende symbiose. Sættet afsluttedes af ‘Cave’, som velfortjent har fået en del opmærksomhed…”
Good Because Danish:
“…And finally a Danish name as well! I discovered LEW through SPOT Festival’s Spotify playlist for this year. I instantly liked the melancholic melody of the track “Lights On” and the slightly retro voice of Sara Lewis, aka LEW. My curiosity is piqued – bring it on SPOT 2016!”
Interview – For The Rabbits An alternative Music Site UK:
https://fortherabbits.net/2016/06/13/lew-in-their-own-words/
“The resulting record is a varied and thrilling selection; whether it’s the exquisite dark-pop of Lights On, the haunting electric guitar work of Raven or the stripped back folk of Home, throughout the record Sara takes the foreground. In the stunning guitar playing, and the emotive vocal delivery, Black Feather is never anything less than delightfully human.”
Interview – GFRock.dk:
http://www.gfrock.dk/jeg-synes-jo-egentlig-jeg-har-lavet-en-pop-plade-interview-med-lew/
“LEW udsendte tidligere i år det roste debutalbum, Black Feathers, og i slutningen af april blev det også til en vellykket koncert på Spot Festival. Kort efter koncerten fangede jeg Sara…”
Album Black Feathers Omtale:
http://www.gfrock.dk/lew-black-feathers/
5 Stjerner:
“LEW leverer en stemningsfuld og helstøbt sammensmeltning mellem flere musikalske universer på debutalbummet Black Feathers, som nok skal få et rigtigt godt tag i de tålmodige lyttere.””
“Man skal altså være tålmodig for at udforske LEW’s univers, og det kræver også opmærksomhed og flere lyt at hænge på undervejs. Er man til gengæld tunet ind, bliver man belønnet med et både lyd- og stemningsmæssigt helstøbt, men samtidig nuanceret album, der udforsker grænselandet mellem det mørkt folkede, det støjrockede og det triphoppede. Lyden er grundlæggende ret udansk, og der er formentlig et større publikum til LEW’s musik udenfor de danske grænser. Det bør dog ikke forhindre nogen herboende i at investere i Black Feathers, som er en glimrende debut.”
Fransk Blog, Music, books and poems
Månedens Album:
“LEW er dette forårs smukke skandinaviske overraskelse. Elleve numre / sange som omgående skal opdages på Spotify.”
UK Aesthetica Magazine:
https://da-dk.facebook.com/lewmusic/posts/608218842675941:0
“. . .Black Feathers has the feel of a lost note scribbled on crumpled paper. With hints to a folky past, these 11 songs stands out as unplugged, unsettling pop that demands repeat listening.”
Tasty Fanzine UK:
“Lew’s voice avoids sounding overly dramatic and she and her associates bring an edgy, occasionally venomous energy to the songs, notably the tightly controlled cadences of ‘Lights On’, the chaotic guitar interplay of ‘Into Your Love’ and the epic romanticism of ‘Riverstone’. If the overall tone of ‘Black Feathers’ is a dark one, Lew’s vision is far from bleak and her songs contain a definable warmth even at their most challenging, musically and lyrically.”
Scunthorpe Telegraph UK
““BLACK FEATHERS” – LEW (DME) – An impressive debut indie rock album from Danish singer-guitarist Sara Lewis and her three-piece band.Lew has been compared not unfavourably to PJ Harvey and hopefully she could make the same international impact. 8/10.”
Roots and Branches UK
“Patti Smith is an occasional reference point, especially on the more sonically muscular numbers Cave. We’ve Said Enough and Into Your Love while the seven minute rumble of Choose and the pulsing strings Riverstone sport Nick Cave resonances. There’s alt-folk colours here and there, notably with album opener The Dirt while pop sensibilities are evident on Lights On and the album closes on a relatively lighter acoustic note with the rippling, cobwebby Home. We will, I suspect, be hearing quite a bit about her in the coming months.”
Månedens album I ELLE Magasin 4/6 EEEE:
https://www.facebook.com/lewmusic/posts/609962629168229:0
“…spiller gennem sin første albumudgivelse ikke på så få strenge, og alligevel er albummet Black Feathers en både helstøbt og personlig samling numre fra den unge singer/songwriter…”
GAFFA 4/6 stjerner:
https://gaffa.dk/anmeldelser/2016/april/releases/lew-black-feathers/
“Hun leverer en spændende vare på sit glimrende debutalbum. Det er et tilrøget dunkelt og dystert univers – ikke mindst ved teksterne, der inciterende kredser om (for)tab(else) og fortvivlelse, men også livsforandringer og nøgne iagttagelser – og konstant får man følelsen af hengiven og følelsesladet indlevelse ved hendes smukke stemme.”
CAPAC:
http://www.capac.dk/wordpress/?p=24602
“Musikken er meget melodiøs og lettere mørk, og mørket stammer sikkert fra det tekstunivers, som man finder på pladen, hvor sangskriveren Sara Lewis i et billedrigt sprog kredser om kærlighedens og hverdagslivets skyggede sider. Lewis bakkes fint op af Anders Wallin (bas og tangenter), Jakob Høyer (trommer) og Nils Grøndahl (violin og pedal noise). Men det samlede udtryk er præget af, at Saras smukke, mørkt farvede stemme står centralt i lydbilledet, medens de andre musikere skaber en bund af tid tider dissonant og støjende dybde.”
CAVE OMTALE:
UK Premiere GoldFlakePaint:
“Led, once again, by her wonderfully robust vocal, the new track ploughs head-long in to the night in a decadent flash of smouldering synth lines and stark bursts of guitar.”
http://www.soundkartell.de/lew/
Track Of the Day GFR:
http://www.gfrock.dk/lew-cave-25-2016/
GAFFA:
http://gaffa.dk/nyhed/105476/lew-giver-en-melankolsk-rocket-albumappetizer
“Singlen “Cave” rummer tonerne af melankolsk fændende rock.”
OMTALE Lights On:
Premiere Nordic Spotlight US:
https://nordicspotlight.com/lew-denmark-lights-on-youtube/
“…So when the melody kicks back into gear and Lewis moans and whimpers over it with that fairly incredible singing voice of hers, you feel like the bottom just dropped out beneath your feet and you’re soaring peacefully towards the ground…”
Premiere Gaffa:
https://gaffa.dk/nyheder/2016/januar/video-smuk-indie-rocksang-fra-danske-l-e-w/
Premiere For the Rabbits:
http://fortherabbits.net/2016/01/29/five-things-we-liked-this-week-29012016/
“..Building from a bed of glistening synths and rolling drums via a beautifully unhinged and mechanical sounding guitar and gently swooping bassline, it recalls the intensity of the early work of Sharon Van Etten or Torres…”
GFRock:
http://www.gfrock.dk/l-e-w-lights-on-82-2016/
UK Blus Bunny:
http://www.bluesbunny.com/Short-Cuts/ShortcutID/877/xmps/11108
“More downbeat electro pop from Scandinavia with Lew – aka Sara Lewis – roughing up the sequenced beats with edgy electric guitars and her intense vocals. It might well be cold outside but there is heat in her music.”
UK Rock, punk indie magazine- With Guitars:
http://www.withguitars.com/introducing-denmarks-lew-watch-first-single-lights/
Uk Little Indie Blogs:
http://littleindieblogs.blogspot.dk/2016/02/track-of-day-lew-lights-on.html
UK HIApop: