Buzzy Lee, AKA: Sasha Spielberg, announces her third studio album Shoulder to Shoulder, will arrive on March 27 via Future Classic. The album, is Lee’s first since 2023’s Internal Affairs. Her new single and video “Bad Company,” out today, is the first offering from the record.

“Bad Company” was written by Sasha at the piano (“always soft pedal for the neighbors”, she assures) and emerged around 10 p.m. one night. While figuring out the chorus, her husband, the visual artist and musician Harry McNally, stood across the room at the sink washing dishes when he began humming along. That melody would become the refrain “you lift me up in the morning.”

For the accompanying music video, Sasha and Harry pulled their apartment door’s security footage together, capturing the couple’s daily comings and goings over the course of three years.  An unintentional fly-on-the-wall rendering of life at their New York City loft.

A year after marrying, Sasha and Harry rediscovered early recordings that revealed the foundation of her next album. They initially collaborated with Nick Millhiser (of LCD Soundsystem and DFA mentees Holy Ghost!) but when the songs began drifting from the demos’ intimate spirit, they chose to return to a homegrown approach, per Nick’s encouragement. Back in their Chelsea loft, Harry stepped in as producer, and the pair recorded mostly at night with a minimal setup, embracing their technical limitations to preserve the raw, instinctual feel of the original sketches. With help from musician friends – including Will Epstein, Georgia Lill, Jake Falby, Mike Irwin, Jorge Balbi, Ben Fletcher and Ryan Richter – adding live instrumentation, they captured vocals throughout their apartment and ultimately capped the album at 10 tracks.

Buzzy Lee
Shoulder to Shoulder
Tracklisting
Future Classic

I’ll Wait
Like That
Bad Company
Shoulder to Shoulder
Youth On Age
Waffle Knit
Blame It
You Should Be Alone
Hot Nights
Gingham

pre-order Shoulder to Shoulder HERE