Lily Konigsberg - Lily We Need to Talk Now [Digipak CD]

Wharf Cat Records

£10.80

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: WCR116CD
Barcode: 0843563139998
Release Date: 29 Oct 2021
Genre: Indie/Alternative

 ‘Lily We Need To Talk Now’ is a record Konigsberg has been slowly chipping away at since 2016, revising and re-recording the songs over the years. The eleven-track collection is her first proper full length, following her anthology of EPs and unreleased tracks, ‘The Best of Lily Konigsberg Right Now’, released in 2021 by Wharf Cat Records.
 The new record is catchy the whole way through, like much of her poppy and plainspoken indie rock output that’s made her a fixture of the NYC underground in recent years. Her voice twists and turns and dashes around her clever wordplay in new ways; there are hints of power-pop, pop-punk and downtempo introspection, all dotted with easter eggs of winking humour.
 True to its title, this collection of songs is like a check in with herself. On ‘That’s The Way I Like It’, with backing vocals from long-time collaborator Paco Cathcart, she reflects on the feeling of “struggling with someone you love, and how you can get all evil about it, like a brat, like a baby.”
 On ‘Proud Home’, she sings one of the record’s boldest earworm hooks (“You’ve got a lot of fucking things to be proud of!”) and tries to comfort a friend who has a crush on her mom. “I really cracked myself up with the lyrics,” she says. “It’s kind of a Stacey’s Mom riff. I decided it’s a dedication to Adam Schlesinger [of Fountains of Wayne].”
 ‘Roses, Again’ is a new take on a familiar Lily tune (originally on ‘Good Time Now’), re-recorded at the request of her current live band, who have evolved the song on the road.
 Available to independent retailers on yellow vinyl.
 “Even before she became a fixture of the New York underground, Lily Konigsberg was staking out her place in local music.” - Pitchfork (Rising Artist, 2020)
 “The freewheeling, flitting melodies underline the precision of
Konigsberg’s songwriting: She knows what she wants to say and she is methodical about how much to reveal.” - Pitchfork
 “A crisp, catchy, and concise bit of ’90s-indebted indie rock” -
Stereogum
 “Warm and direct but tough to grasp, untraceable” - Tiny Mix Tapes

Tracklisting:
Beauty
Sweat Forever
That’s The Way I Like It
Alone
Don’t Be Lazy With Me
Proud Home
Hark
Bad Boy
Roses, Again
Goodbye
True