Today, California-based artist Lindsay Olsen—better known by her alias Salami Rose Joe Louis—releases her new album Lorings via Brainfeeder. Spanning 17 tracks, Lorings is a deeply personal journey through experimental electro-pop, spotlighting Olsen’s singular sonic world—lush, whimsical, and emotionally resonant.
About the album by Lindsay:
Delightfully raw and heartfelt, ‘Lorings’ is a collection of songs that find SRJL displaying her vulnerability through a playful and sonically explorative lens. “I was hoping to bypass the distillation process of overthinking outside perception,” she says. “Each song feels like a significant section of my personality has been carved out and put on a platter for public consumption, which is a devastating thought [haha].”
Olsen made Lorings almost entirely autonomously on her trusty Roland MV8800 workstation. For a couple of songs, SRJL invited a handful of exceptionally talented friends to collaborate: guitarist/producer Flanafi (with whom Olsen partnered for the collaborative album Sarah in 2024); Omari Jazz (Black Decelerant); Luke Titus and Sergio Machado Plim.
Elsewhere on Lorings, Olsen addresses themes of imposter syndrome, falling in love, heartbreak, the idea of family and parenthood, superficiality, her frustrations with the music industry (“I dunno the way… For I cannot play… The game”). She does revisit more familiar tropes too as exemplified by “Motorway (feat. Flanafi)”. “I feel like the world is being confronted with an enormous lack of humanity at the moment and it feels impossible to comprehend how people can be so cruel,” she declares.
Lorings gets: 📷📷📷📷📷📷📷/10.
Salami Rose Joe Louis – Lorings [Streaming]
