Lily Seabird - Alas [Yellow Vinyl]

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: LMO113LPC1
Barcode: 0810097918368
Release Date: 29 Nov 2024
Genre: Indie Folk

Standard weight yellow vinyl.

Lily Seabird is a perceptive songwriter who can channel moments when everything feels raw and overwhelming into something healing and galvanizing. With Alas, the Burlington, VT-based artist’s sophomore album, she confronts grief with palpable clarity on tracks that careen from delicate folk to blistering indie rock. While it’s her second LP, it. serves as a proper introduction to an undeniable and idiosyncratic voice. “Alas, sounds way more like me,” she says. “This is the album I wanted to make in the first place.”

The songs on Alas, came from a particularly unmoored period for Seabird. “I wrote this album in 2021 and 2022 on the road, trying to figure out who I am,” she says. “A lot of them also deal with the time when my close friend passed away. The title Alas, meant a lot to her.” Even if the songs don’t always directly tackle this specific loss, there’s a sense of mourning in how relationships change and dissolve. Take “Grace,” a reflection on female friendship, which features the lines, “I hope she’s happy now she should be 25 / She taught me something that I thought I’d always hide.” Elsewhere, the knotty and unpredictable “Dirge” finds her singing, “I don’t know if I believe in god / I don’t know if I know how to go on.”

TRACKLIST:
Side A
1. Take It
2. Grace
3. Twenty
4. Over and over again (searching for
you in the space)
5. Angel
Side B
1. Dirge
2. Cavity
3. Domino
4. Waste
5. The end of the beginning