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Photo by Eliza Callahan Friday will see the release of Lily Seabird's highly anticipated new album, and we have one last single to check out before it's released. "Arrow" deviates from previous singles a bit. While Seabird's last few singles went in a more alt-country or indie folk direction, this new one is more indie rock with some twangy elements. It still has some folk inside, and Seabird's usual intimate feel despite "Arrow" being a relatively huge song. This is filled with a huge amount of fuzz throughout, and it's the type of song that will endear Seabird to you even more. This upcoming Friday is certainly one of the biggest release dates of the year for us, but Lily Seabird's upcoming album is sure to be a highlight. Lily Seabird says of her new single: “This is one of my only love songs. It’s been really fun to play this one in the band and I like how it sounds on the recording, but I also really love to play this song on an acoustic...

Photo by Eliza Callahan Vermont's Lily Seabird has released a pair of sonically very different but thematically very similar singles. "How far away" is a just under two minute piano ballad. It's only Seabird's vocals and Sam Atallah's piano, and it's a completely compelling and beautiful song about loss. It's melancholy, but beautiful and surprisingly uplifting. "It was like you were coming to wake us back up" is about seeing someone outside of her house that looked like her deceased loved one. The second single is a full band track that is a little faster in pace, but not much. To me, "It was like you were coming to wake us back up" feels more pained, while "How far away" sounds more like reminiscing. Both are beautiful and powerful songs of loss that are well worth spending some time with. Lily Seabird says of her new singles: “‘How far away’ closes Side A of Trash Mountain and ‘It was like…’ opens Side B, but they'r...

Photo by Evan Loigon I absolutely adored Lily Seabird's 2024 album Alas,  so I'm thrilled and shocked that she already has a new album coming out in April. The first single from her upcoming album, "Trash Mountain (1 pm)," has that Americana meets indie rock sound we loved from her previous album. This one is leaning a little more heavily into the Americana side of things, particularly into alt-country. The song is quite twangy without fully being country. This is the type of song that's obviously going to work for those that love alt-country and freak folk, but it's also going to surprise fans on the indie rock side of things that typically hate Americana. Lily Seabird says of her latest single: “It started with thinking about touring and then, late stage capitalism, technology, climate change, my shortening attention span, but also shifting relationships and our ability to deal with the past and move forward.  I kinda just ended up at my house feeling really...