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Athena Merry

Liily

Los Angeles rockers Liily created some buzz a couple years back with incendiary live shows and an EP, I Can Fool Anybody in This Town, filled with glossy new wave sounds. They've added a lot more heavy and dark on TV or Not TV, their debut full-length album due out Oct. 22. (For just one reference, it sounds as if they have been listening to a lot of Birthday Party.) This one should wake up the neighbors.

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media release:

They’ve grown up amid the chaos and confusion of the internet age, fed constant information at a terrifying rate. Their frenzied, abrasive, kitchen-sink approach to rock’n’roll encapsulates that perfectly." - NME 

"Caustic and deliberately raw, their new single 'I Am Who I Think You Think I Am' is a real statement, a crunching manifesto." - Clash

"Strange and abrasive but with considerable emotional girth. The track contains the unbridled energy of Liily’s early shows and singles, but feels stripped of anything passive or unintentional." - Post-Punk

"An irresistible reintroduction and statement of purpose for the band, and a frenzied addition to their growing canon of killer tracks." - Under The Radar  

Following the release of gritty romps "I Am Who You Think I Think I Am" and "Odds Are It's Blue," Los Angeles rock outfit Liily have returned with yet another single off their upcoming long-awaited debut, TV or Not TV, this one entitled "Early Bopper" and premiered at NME.

As the track's title suggests, it's a certified bop. Carved out with a blistering guitar-heavy background and rage-filled vocal swells, the track begs to be met by the roar of a raucous crowd. With Liily's strong history in the practice of writing songs that can get stuck in your head for days, this is just another to add to the list.

The track's accompanying music video (directed by guitarist Sam De La Torre) is as wild as you might expect — it zeroes in on members of the band as they makes their way through a multi-tired building, brimming with an eery web of activity. It's definitely a video you have to watch for yourself, maybe even multiple times, so you can dissect every small detail buried beneath the surface. In combination, the mind-melting visual pairs well with the track, as both leave you breathless, and possibly a bit confused, but eager to know more.

Liily are four Los Angeles musicians — Dylan Nash, Sam De La Torre, Charlie Anastasis & Maxx Morando  — who, up until now, were mostly known for their manic and cacophonous live shows. Those performances, alongside a couple of early singles packaged together into an EP entitled I Can Fool Anybody In This Town, drove the band to some surprising early successes: performing at Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo, touring across Europe and the United States, then finding themselves on the cover of Spotify and Apple Music’s major rock playlists. But then, as quickly as they appeared, they seemed to vanish.

Almost two years later, and now all of 22 years old, the band return with their debut album, TV or Not TV, in October. It is a highly aggressive record, even more so than their early work. But here, they jump from moment to moment and genre to genre, creating an experimental and original set of songs, all more strange and abrasive, but also far more three dimensional than anything they've ever done before. It still contains the unbridled energy of those early shows and singles, but feels stripped of anything passive or unintentional.