Citing “being scared for [her] life…putting things into perspective” after being involved in a car accident, Bay Area producer Lindsay Olsen quit her job as a climate scientist to pursue music full time in 2017. Her stage name, salami rose joe louis, is an amalgamation of two childhood nicknames for music just as whimsical.

Olsen signed with Flying Lotus’s Brainfeeder label in early 2019.