Lena Marie

Is like Julia Stiles without the midriff.

We're done making music comparisons (although Lena Marie sounds like a serene counterpart to Soccer Mommy), but we are here to say that Lena Marie channels all the malaise of early adulthood into poetic melodies that would make Kat Stratford proud. Being 19, graduating high school, and trying to launch a music career during a pandemic is a quagmire not to be wished upon the worst of enemies.

But Lena Marie is making it work.

After her seven-track debut EP, Closing Doors, was released in 2019, Lena Marie has continued writing cavernous folk ballads all the way to a fledgling record deal with a Minnesota label. The width and reverberations of her studio tracks aren't an accident—Lena Marie began making music in the bathroom of her childhood home, occasionally with a fully electric setup. Sometimes the things that drive your dad crazy are also the things that help develop your sound...

We were originally set to shoot with Lena Marie in March 2020 but...we all know what happened there. So this performance, aside from being a post-pandemic (can we say that?) coming out party, was marinating on the shelf for over a year. A huge, huge thanks to Colin over at eTuk Ride in Denver, who made our dreams of shooting a music video on a tuk-tuk a reality. It was an idea that Kyle and I came up with after sitting on the back of many, many rickshaws on dirt roads in Mexico and Guatemala.

The video was shot in Denver's Larimer Square, and in transit to Little Man Ice Cream.

You can check out more from Lena Marie on Spotify, here.