Lily Seabird - "Portal to the Past"

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Photo by Noah Lenker

Vermont's Lily Seabird has an epic new single out that is going to blow some minds. "Portal to the Past" is going to remind a lot of you of Neil Young at his noisiest. It still has roots firmly in folk and Americana, but this is a noisy rock track, even at its slowest. As "Portal to the Past" plods along over its seven minute length, you wait and wait for an explosion that never quite comes, which actually makes the song better. This is a highly emotional song that is going to shatter all expectations, even those of long term Lily Seabird diehard fans. "Portal to the Past" is a song out of time, that belongs in multiple decades and none at the same time.

Lily Seabird says of her latest single:

“Trying to describe what inspires my writing is hard to figure sometimes. A lot of these songs on this record wrestle with time and memory, our perception as it rolls forward, as the past gets further away and the future rolls out infinitely ahead of us. The light as it fades. This song came from a longer poem I wrote after waking from a vivid dream on a friend's porch in New Orleans. I think writing it in New Orleans brought a special energy to it. The energy is really intense there. Dwelling too much can sometimes create what feels like a portal and bring you right back to where you once were, that’s the portal to the past.”

You can listen to "Portal to the Past" below. Lightspheres on Their Way is due out on physical formats on September 4, and digitally October 2 via Lame-O Records, and is available for pre-order here. For more on Lily Seabird, check out the artist on Instagram. Upcoming tour dates are below the song.


Thu. Aug. 27 - Birmingham, UK @ Hare & Hounds
Fri. Aug. 28 - Norwich, UK @ NAC
Sun. Aug. 30 - Nottingham, UK @ The Grove
Mon. Aug. 31 - Glasgow, UK @ The Old Hairdresser's
Tue. Sept. 1 - Newcastle, UK @ Cumberland Arms
Wed. Sept. 2 - Liverpool, UK @ Quarry
Thu. Sept. 3 - London, UK @ The Lexington
Sun. Sept. 6 - Dorset, UK @ End of the Road Festival
Tue. Sept. 15 - Thu. Sep 17 - Nashville, TN @ Americanafest
Sun. Oct. 4 - Pelham, TN @ The Caverns *
Mon. Oct. 5 - Carrboro, NC @ Cat's Cradle *
Tue. Oct. 6 - Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel *
Thu. Oct. 8 - Tampa, FL @ The Orpheum *
Fri. Oct. 9 - Miami, FL @  Miami Beach Bandshell *
Sat. Oct. 10 - Orlando, FL @ Beacham Theater *
Sat. Nov. 7 - Groningen, NL @ Take Root Festival
Tue. Nov. 10 - Amsterdam, NL @ Tolhuistuin Zonzij
Wed. Nov. 11 - Antwerp, BE @ TRIX

* w/ Black Country, New Road

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