I don’t pay attention to a lot of stats or any of that stuff because I think that gets in the way. She just came out with a new album, Joy’All, and a single on it recently hit number one on the Billboard Alternative Music Charts. In 2006 she decided to try to go solo, and she’s come out with five solo albums since. She was in Postal Service, a band with Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie. She was the lead singer in the early 2000s band Rilo Kiley, which was one of the only indie bands at that time to have a frontwoman. They call her, like, a musical godmother or maybe a musical big sister to millennial women that are in their feelings. I’ve been listening to Jenny Lewis for decades. It might get, yeah, wild in about 32 minutes. (Laughter) I had one weed gummy for breakfast, and a nice cup of coffee.

So to do that, I asked her to talk into the mic. She just walked in and I need to test the microphone levels to make sure we’re ready to roll. I’m with the musician Jenny Lewis in a green room at a hotel in Manhattan. This is an audio transcript of the FT Weekend podcast episode: ‘Jenny Lewis walks us through her new album’

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