Sleeping Lion Lennon Stella

• 1 Comedy Show 03:00
• 2 Beginner's Mind 03:46
• 3 Porcelain 03:01
• 4 Unforgivable Things 02:35
• 5 I Still Want You 03:26
• 6 Ta Da 03:10
• 7 What's There to Hold Onto? 02:59
• 8 Peach 03:00
• 9 If She'll Let Me 03:28
• 10 Smartest Person in the Room 03:22
• 11 Too Quiet, Too Loud 03:25
• 12 Whatever That Means 01:35
• Total Runtime 36:47

Info for Sleeping Lion

"Sleeping Lion" marks Stella’s first record release in six years. Her new single and video “Unforgivable Things,” out this Thursday, is the first offering from the record.

Sleeping Lion is Lennon Stella’s second album, but it feels like an introduction. The title’s image of dormant strength aptly summarizes the journey that the 27-year-old indie folk singer-songwriter has been on for six years.

After her 2020 full-length Three. Two. One, Stella needed to take a second to get to know herself and reconnect with her love of music. Sleeping Lion is the result of this moment of quiet, which sees Stella returning with a renewed sense of creative freedom and trust in her own instincts.

She shares, “I waited long enough that people within the industry stopped caring, and the pressure went away,” Stella says. “With that came freedom, inspiration, and excitement; My true love of music returned.”

The album took shape through a deeply personal process, including scrapping an earlier version of the record, and a serendipitous collaboration with lauded Canadian singer-songwriter Andy Shauf, who serves as the producer of the album and helped Lennon reconnect with the raw, earnest music that first inspired her.

The album captures an awakening as Stella embraces her own agency and explores her own insecurities with empathy and curiosity.

Lennon Stella

Lennon Stella
The Ontario-born and Nashville-based singer, songwriter, actress, and multi-instrumentalist has been streamed nearly half-a-billion times within a year and is pegged among Refinery29’s “Young Celebrities to Watch in 2019” and Teen Vogue’s “16 Musicians You Need to Be Listening to in 2019” and most recently Amazon Music’s Artist to Watch for 2020. Hailing from rural Ontario an hour east of Toronto, Lennon Stella rose to popularity at 12-years-old as part of Lennon & Maisy, alongside her younger sister Maisy. Gaining national attention with a 2012 cover of Robyn’s “Call Your Girlfriend,” Lennon & Maisy achieved viral popularity to the tune of 100 million-plus YouTube views and just shy of 800,000 subscribers. She went on to star in the ABC/CMT smash Nashville as Maddie Conrad for six years.In 2018, she lent her voice to Jonas Blue’s “Polaroid” with Liam Payne, which clocked 200 million total streams and counting. Kickstarting her solo career, the songstress introduced a singular style on the 2018 Love, me EP. It bowed in the Top 5 of the Billboard Heatseekers Albums Chart as the single “La Di Da” amassed more than 90 million Spotify streams and counting. After selling out dates on her first North American headline tour, she shared the stage with Anne-Marie and recently supported The Chainsmokers and 5SOS.

She also lent her voice to “Takeaway” by The Chainsmokers and Illenium, which exploded as a phenomenon with 100 million Spotify streams and 37 million views in under eight weeks. Most recently Lennon released "Summer Feelings” featuring Charlie Puth as part of the SCOOB soundtrack. Her debut album was in April 2020.

This album contains no booklet.