Who are the people you don’t know personally but have gone to bed thinking about?
For Alexandra Levy, aka Ada Lea, they include painters, writers, and musicians. She thanks them in the liner notes of her third album, when i paint my masterpiece.
In addition to Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Lana Del Rey and Charli XCX, the Montreal-based singer-songwriter credits the artist Shuvinai Ashoona and the writer Olga Tokarczuk – an indication that the imagery and the lyrics play just as important a role as the music.
As for the last of the three, acknowledging the aforementioned musicians suggests that Levy follows the traditions of introspective folk pop but also has a tendency to experiment.