Ada Lea - When I Paint My Masterpiece

Released 8th August 2025

"The hand knows best, the painter Margaux Williamson says. A shape produces itself, where I go toward what is intuitive, rather than logical. The shapely, intuitive songs that comprise Ada Lea's third album, when i paint my masterpiece, are surprising, imagistic, tactile. They stand before us and we feel their brushstrokes. Alexandra Levy holds her guitar against the backdrop of a sea of her paintings on the album cover and its tempting to ask: is painting a metaphor here, for music or life? No! As ever, she resists tidy metaphors. Shes a master of this kind of thorny lowercase title that germinates and grows with time. In a real, profound way, music and painting go hand-in-hand as she unveils a new style of subversion and surrealism inspired by her transdisciplinarity.

Levy is a Renaissance woman, and Ada Leas albums have been swelling in scope alongside the evolution of her artistic life. Her recent turn