Ada Lea Takes a Winding Trip Through Montreal in "partner" Video

The song appears on her forthcoming album 'one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden'

BY Allie GregoryPublished Aug 25, 2021

Montreal's Alexandra Levy — a.k.a. Ada Lea — has served up another piece of her forthcoming record, one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden. Today, she shares new single "partner," which has arrived with its own music video.

Directed by Erica Orofino, the accompanying visuals find Levy moving through memories of Montreal, reflecting the song's foundations in her hometown. As with other songs on the record, "partner" is just one of the album's stories that exist as "a dot on a personal history map of the city where Levy grew up."

As Levy describes it, "partner" is "a song about moving through a memory... an involuntary memory that steals up on you the night after a rager (which takes place the morning after the song 'damn')."

"partner" follows the release of "damn" and "hurt," both of which also appear on one hand on the steering wheel. The album is due to arrive on September 24 via Next Door Records.

Watch Levy's new video and revisit the record's full tracklisting below. 



one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden:

1. damn
2. can't stop me from dying
3. oranges
4. partner
5. saltspring
6. and my newness spoke to your newness and it was a thing of endless
7. my love 4 u is real
8. backyard
9. writer in ny
10. violence
11. hurt

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