Burlington-based songwriter Lily Seabird shares two singles from her forthcoming album, Trash Mountain, due out April 4th via Lame-O Records. On the stunning "How far away," she's backed only by a piano played by Sam Atallah which makes for elegiac catharsis. "It was like you were coming to wake us back up" sees Seabird vividly paint a brief moment of seeing a person outside her house who bears an uncanny resemblance to her dearly deceased.
On the singles, Seabird shares "'How far away' closes Side A of Trash Mountain and 'It was like...' opens Side B, but they're about the same subject, so it's nice to have them paired together today. The videos were captured in New Orleans last month during a record snowstorm. I was visiting with one of my best friends -- it felt funny that we seemed to have brought the weather with us from Vermont."
Since 2023, Seabird's life has been in perpetual motion, spending nearly half of that time on the road performing her own music and as a touring bassist with Greg Freeman, Lutalo, and Liz Cooper. While she thrives in transit, back home she is anchored by "Trash Mountain," a pink house surrounded by other artists and creatives situated on a decommissioned landfill site at the back of Burlington's Old North End. Here, Seabird has found belonging, friendship, and inspiration. It's a place that hosts artists, puts on shows, and has been passed along in her friend group for the better part of the decade. It's a symbol of transition and stability: something always evolving and growing but never losing its soul.
Over nine delicate but sturdy tracks of intimate folk rock, Trash Mountain pares Seabird's songwriting down to its most resonant essentials. It's an album of unwelcome exits and uncertain futures, but there's resiliency and hope at its core. It is Seabird's most confident and immediate effort to date.