[Lily Seabird]

Lily Seabird is a perceptive songwriter who can channel moments when everything feels raw and overwhelming into something healing and galvanizing. With Alas, 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.

Though Seabird is now known as a solo artist and collaborator in Burlington’s vibrant music community, her journey started in Pennsylvania when she picked up the saxophone at 9. By 14, she learned guitar and started performing as Lily Seabird—after a brief stint in New York City she moved to Vermont which has been her home since 2018. Seabird and Benny Yurco produced Alas, which was tracked at Burlington’s Little Jamaica Recordings with Greg Freeman and Zack James (Robber Robber, Dari Bay). It’s a quietly expansive album full of subdued, organic textures and moods. Songs like “Cavity” are lush and inviting with silky guitar and Seabird’s expressive saxophone playing. The 10 tracks on Alas, stretch out and leave space for introspection and deep listening with some tracks taking nearly seven minutes to mesmerizingly unfold.

“The songs of Alas, are about loss, coming of age, and sadness, but there are also all these moments where happiness takes over,” says Seabird. “It can be two things at once, just like the album title. Life isn't just pain and sadness, there’s also joy. They can all exist at the same time.” It’s a remarkably assured and vital statement from one of the most promising new songwriters.

[Margaux]

“Inside the Marble” is Margaux’s first full-length studio LP. The album is her most mature and inspired work to date–at times breathlessly intimate, at other times sweeping and orchestral. Although the album navigates heartbreak through songs like “Ships” and “DNA,” it is more than a breakup album. Margaux also wrestles with the anxieties of how we grow up and build a life of our own. How we teeter between confrontation and avoidance (in “Dissolve / Resolve”) and end up hiding behind the boundaries we’ve drawn (in “What Could I Say?”).

In Margaux’s own words: “The album’s common thread is really about making sense of big feelings. I do love songwriting as a craft but I think a lot of the time it is something I turn to amidst a spike in emotion, whether that is rooted in heartbreak, dread, feelings of love, or angst… these things can feel so unruly inside. Writing these songs has helped me gain a sense of direction and clarity in moments that have otherwise felt like complete internal chaos.” In that sense, the album’s title refers not only to its cloudy, rolling vortex of indecision and fear–it also refers (somewhat tongue in cheek) to the idea of “losing ones marbles.” On nights surrounded by tangled cables and piling laundry, these ten songs gave Margaux a reason to pull through the worst pangs of heartache and post-graduate dread.

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