Jenny Lewis & Serengeti Join Forces for Festive "Unblu" Single First of 5+ Planned Collaborations (Loves Way)

Jenny Lewis is an Indie Rock singer-songwriter, musician, and actress best known for her work with Rilo Kiley, Jenny & Johnny, and Nice As F**k, as well as The Postal Service and The Watson Twins. David Cohn, better known as Serengeti, is a Chicago-based rapper, who has always seemingly teetered on the fringe of Indie Rock. In addition to his vast body of work as both Serengeti & Kenny Dennis, Cohn has collaborated with the likes of Renee-Louise Carafice & Tony Trimm as Yoome, Son Lux and Sufjan Stevens as Sisyphus (and S / S / S,) Yoni Wolf (WHY?) as Yoni & Geti, Matthewdavid as Davis, Workaholics' Anders Holm as PERFECTO! Advance Base, TOBACCO, and Child Actor. Earlier this year, Serengeti released an album titled The Gentle Fall largely based around sampled guitar loops from Christian Lee Hutson and his latest album, With Greg from Deerhoof, is just that: 8-9 songs recorded with Greg Saunie from Deerhoof.

Now, as you may have guessed from the aforementione dIndie Rock/Hip-Hop lead-in... Geti & Jenny have joined forces for a brand new would-be holiday jam, "Unblu." It's now available (just in time for the holidays!) on Jenny Lewis' own Loves Way imprint with an accompanying music video directed by Lewis herself. "Unblu" was produced by Lewis and Andrew Broder AKA DJ Andrew AKA Wertheimer (Fog) very recently during quarantine lockdown. Below, you can find more information on Jenny Lewis & Serengeti's "Unblu," which appears to be the first of five tracks they recorded together, as per a press statement. "Unblu" is now available across digital streaming platforms on Loves Way. Stay tuned for more, as we're hoping this isn't the last we hear from Jenny & Geti!

Jenny met Dave down a long hallway in a former Communist Media Center in East Berlin during The People Festival of 2018. Dave asked Jenny to sing on a song about Tom Selleck passing on the part of Indiana Jones. Can you imagine a world where Tom Selleck is Indiana Jones? A fast friendship was born as they skulked about, cracking jokes, and chatting about their mutual love for boxing. Jenny threw a show for Dave at Dino's in East Nashville when they returned from Europe.

The bartenders said it was the best show they ever had. Jenny was among the nine fans that attended and danced their a**es off. To cap the torrid evening, Dave said "J, I need seven tracks! Just piano or guitar or whatever!" Jenny inquired if one would do? Then, the world shut down and Jenny & Dave hunkered down in Los Angeles & Chicago, respectively. Jenny smoked weed every day and Dave stayed totally sober.

The result is five songs made on Jenny's iPhone for Dave. Beats, bass, drums, digital tanpura, and topline, sent via text, ripe for Dave's poetry. To accompany the music, Jenny made videos on her phone during the witching hours, editing while under the covers. Then, Jenny texted the tracks to another People alumnus—Andrew Broder in Minneapolisst—who co-produced and mixed the songs, taking them from GarageBand phone music to music that gently thumps you.

Music to dance around your living room in a Day-Glo bathing suit to. Music to go bananas to while watching the news and Forensic Files on Mute.

Thank you for reading this.

Enjoy, Jenny Lewis & Serengeti

P.S. It's almost Christmas!