- 2024-08-09
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MUSIC
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Dean Lewis Teams Up with Sasha Alex Sloan for New Song “Rest”
Australian pop singer-songwriter Dean Lewis teamed up with American singer-songwriter Sasha Alex Sloan to release a new song “Rest” on August 8, 2024.
The song is the fifth single off of his upcoming third studio album “The Epilogue”, which is set to be released on October18, 2024.
The new album is his first LP in two years since the 2022 album “The Hardest Love” and comprises a 12-track.
This marks the first collaboration between Dean Lewis and Sasha Alex Sloan.
They co-wrote and recorded the song together in Los Angeles. Produced by Colin Foote, Alex Borel, Petey Martin, and Dean Lewis.
The accompanying music video was directed by Dean Lewis’s brother and long-time visual collaborator, Sean Loaney, in Nashville.
Dean Lewis said of the song, “So after 8 years of releasing depressing music, I finally got around to writing my first love song! I remember walking into the studio and meeting Sasha. Usually when these writing sessions get set up, there's a producer and all these people in the room, but we wanted it to be just us and an engineer. I took out my cheap mini Martin guitar that I'd just bought the day before, and played these chords and a rough melody of a half baked chorus. Sasha said 'that's cool' and we started refining the song line by line. It flowed out really easy. Simple songs are always the hardest ones to write, but when it works it works and this one just flew out.”- He continued, “We had finished the song within about 4 hours, it would have been much quicker, but we kept stopping to share stories about some of the crazy things that had happened to both of us along the way to getting to this point in our lives. We got the demo back that same night and then I sent it off to Colin and Alex to take this acoustic demo and build it up. What they sent back was incredible. We refined the production some more and then we had it; my first ever love song written with and featuring the incredible Sasha Alex Sloan. I hope you love it as much as we do.”
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Sasha Alex Sloan said, “I've been a fan of Deans for a while so when I found out we were writing together I was a little nervous but the second I walked in the room all my nerves went away. We clicked instantly. This song is the first song we ever wrote together, and I think we stumbled onto some magic that day... so excited for the world to hear it.” - source : Apple Music
