Yellow Colour Vinyl

Tracklist:

1. Take It
2. Grace
3. Twenty
4. Over and Over Again (Searching for You in the Space)
5. Angel
6. Dirge
7. Cavity
8. Domino
9. Waste
10. The End of the Beginning

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 artists sophomore album, she confronts grief with palpable clarity on tracks that careen from delicate folk to blistering indie rock. While its 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 dont always directly tackle this specific loss, theres a sense of mourning in how relationships change and dissolve. Take Grace, a reflection on female friendship, which features the lines, I hope shes happy now she should be 25 / She taught me something that I thought Id always hide. Elsewhere, the knotty and unpredictable Dirge finds her singing, I dont know if I believe in god / I dont know if I know how to go on.