Lisa Molinaro – Blind Trust
On July 17, Lisa Molinaro will release her debut album Blind Trust.
Today she is excited to share the album’s lead single “We All Get Stuck” and its accompanying music video, filmed by Chris Regis.
Built around rhythmic viola bow taps and warm synth textures, the song became the foundation for the album while exploring themes of stagnation, self-reflection, and personal accountability. The video mirrors that mood through the eerie atmosphere of an abandoned warehouse filled with forgotten spaces and objects. The track debuted today at Magnet Magazine and is on all streaming platforms for playlist shares.
Reflecting on the song, Lisa Molinaro shares:
I started this song with bow taps on the viola strings (col legno) and a kind of train beat-style rhythmic pulse, balancing organic string textures with warm synths. Very quickly it became the anchor of the record—I remember realizing, mid-process, that I wasn’t just writing a song, I was building an album.
At its core, the song is about stagnation: those stretches of time where momentum disappears, where change feels just out of reach, or where you delay the very things you know you need to face. For a long time, I located that stuckness outside of myself—in outer circumstances, other people, external pressure—but over time I started to see how much of it was internal, how often I was participating in my own inertia.
With that came a shift toward self-acceptance that isn’t passive, but honest. The idea of “it’s never your fault” starts to blur—because sometimes it is, sometimes it isn’t, and often it’s both in different ways. The song eventually arrives at a kind of confrontation with that ambiguity: bring what’s real, not what’s half-formed or protected by comfort. At a certain point, enough is enough.
Ultimately, it’s about recognizing that being stuck is universal—but so is the responsibility, and possibility, of un-sticking ourselves.
I came across an opportunity to explore all these weird abandoned rooms and offices of a warehouse, and the atmosphere instantly felt akin to the mood of the song. All these things that used to be important, or have a function, were just left behind. So much inertia. I used that space as a catharsis during the filming of the video.
Lisa Molinaro spent years playing with some of indie rock’s most celebrated artists, recording with Modest Mouse, performing on viola with The National, and touring with The Decemberists as a violist and multi-instrumentalist. When the pandemic hit, Molinaro had an identity crisis: who was she when she wasn’t lending gravitas to others? She’d considered solo projects before, recording into her Tascam as a twenty-something; before, she’d cited external circumstances, but a collaboration with a dance company led her to work on her own project. Years later, we have her debut album.
Blending layered string arrangements, art rock ambition, and experimental pop textures, Blind Trust balances meticulous composition with emotional immediacy. Molinaro’s songs move fluidly between hushed harmonies, distorted guitars, and cinematic tension, shaped by years of collaboration across indie rock, film scoring, and performance art. Rooted in themes of grief, self-reflection, and transformation, her work feels both intimate and expansive – the sound of an artist finally claiming space for herself.
Mixed by Zach Bloomstein (Searows, Portugal. The Man) and mastered by Amy Dragon (Bartees Strange, Cleo Solo), Blind Trust integrates everything she’s learned through decades of touring and makes something no one else could make. Molinaro is the first to describe herself as a late bloomer; she named her home studio after that. But she’s here now, and wherever Molinaro goes on Blind Trust, she goes wholly.
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