With her enchanted voice and evocative songwriting, Leslie Mendelson has won over the hearts and minds of both an adoring fanbase and fellow artists alike. No less than Jackson Browne has declared, “Leslie’s melodies are timeless. They reach me way back in my youth somewhere. I hear traces of Burt Bacharach and Carole King, and hooks and passages that remind me of the pop songs I grew up hearing on the radio,” while The Wallflowers frontman Jakob Dylan shares: “Voices like Leslie’s can get away with almost anything. Along with being a great songwriter, this leaves her with few if any peers.”
A Grammy Award-nominated artist, Mendelson returns this summer with her fourth studio album, After The Party (due out June 21st via Pasadena Records and Royal Potato Family). For this latest effort, she collaborates with not one, but three producers: the legendary Peter Asher (James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt, Bonnie Raitt), the young, in-demand Tyler Chester (Madison Cunningham, Sara Bareilles, Sara Watkins) and her longtime songwriting partner, three-time Grammy Award-winner, Steve McEwan. Recorded at Jackson Browne’s studio Grove Masters in Santa Monica, CA, she was joined by an ace band featuring guitarists Waddy Wachtel and John Jorgenson, bassists Leland Sklar and Derrick Anderson, and drummers Jim Keltner and Abe Rounds.
Throughout After The Party’s ten tracks, Mendelson crafts a distinctive folk-rock, pop-Americana flavor, evoking the sounds of Laurel Canyon, but with the downtown grit and sharp wit of Brooklyn, the city she has called home for over two decades now.
Today Glide is excited to offer an exclusive premiere of the video for the standout track “Other Girls,” which finds Medelson delivering a sensual and moody rocker that dabbles in a catchy left-of-the-dial realm. Featuring simple guitar work, rich harmonies, and an earworm chorus, the song is poignant and witty with the proper amount of head-rocking goodness to get the listener pumped up. Lyrically, the song finds Mendelson leaning into the themes of relationships and boundaries, a loaded topic that culminates in a power pop-soaked guitar solo to close out the song. If this were two decades ago, this song would be an immediate radio hit with notes of grunge and early aughts post-punk like Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
This is a song about the beauty of woman—their flair, intelligence, style and confidence. Who doesn’t appreciate hearing about the fairer sex? It’s another way of looking at conventional relationships and my perspective on it all as norms and boundaries continue to evolve and change. – Leslie Mendelson
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