Lily Seabird Announces New Album Trash Mountain, Shares Lead Single

The LP will arrive April 4 via Lame-O Records. Listen to "Trash Mountain (1pm)" below.

Lily Seabird Announces New Album Trash Mountain, Shares Lead Single

Lily Seabird is back, and we couldn’t be more thrilled. Today, she has announced Trash Mountain, due April 4 via Lame-O Records, and shared its lead single, “Trash Mountain (1pm).”

Trash Mountain comes off the heels of a whirlwind 2024 for Seabird, which saw the release of her stunning sophomore album, Alas,,, and a near-non-stop year on the road, touring as a headliner, opening act and bassist supporting other artists (like fellow Vermonter Greg Freeman). Amidst the hectic throes of life as a full-time musician, Seabird found herself relying on songwriting as a meditative practice, a means of grounding herself in the present. Hence, Trash Mountain spawned quickly—Seabird wrote its nine songs within the span of three months last spring and tracked them over the course of four days with Kevin Copeland (Hannah Frances, Lightning Bug, Allegra Krieger) last summer.

Between stretches on the road, “Trash Mountain”—a pink house situated atop a decommissioned landfill site, for which the album and its lead single are named—also offered Seabird stability. “Trash Mountain (1pm)” is a breathtaking homage to the site, as Seabird contemplates her surroundings and the memories they conjure against a sparse backdrop of gusty harmonica, twangy guitar and gothic strings. With her singularly piercing voice, she makes it impossible not to hang onto every detail.

“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,” Seabird says of the song. “I kinda just ended up at my house feeling really grateful for my friends. The house I live at has been referred to as Trash Mountain because it’s on top of an old landfill on the edge of town. It’s also the last place my friend Ryan went before she died, it’s really strange how a lot of our close friends wound up moving in here after she passed, she feels very tied to it spiritually.”

Watch the music video for “Trash Mountain (1pm)” and check out the Trash Mountain artwork and tracklist below.

Trash Mountain Artwork:

Trash Mountain Tracklist:
Harmonoia
Trash Mountain (1pm)
Sweepstake
Arrow
How far away
It was like you were coming to wake us back up
Albany
Trash Mountain (1am)
The Fight

 
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