Lily Seabird

Lily Seabird makes folk music for grunge heads. On her new album 'Lightspheres on Their Way' (Lame-O Records), she moves past bedroom-diary lyrics to deliver a cinematic, novelistic look at the world around her. She channels personal memories into songs that tackle heavy realities like loss, mortality, and addiction. Her sound shifts instantly from intimate, Joni Mitchell-style songwriting and David Bowie influences to the fuzzy, explosive guitar stomps of Neil Young's Crazy Horse and the noise-rock ferocity of Steve Albini.

Tracked live around a woodstove in a freezing, makeshift Maine studio, the record captures that exact environment by sounding completely raw, bare, and intense. Seabird seamlessly drives from quiet, heart-wringing tracks on guitar and Wurlitzer into expansive instrumental jams that serve as emotional decompression. She stares life's messiest corners right in the face, balancing these dark themes with a bold, earthy realism and a searing guitar drive.