Lily Seabird announces her signing to Lame-O Records (Slaughter Beach, Dog, Trace Mountains), the artist will reissue her 2024 album Alas, on vinyl for the first time alongside an intimate acoustic EP featuring two new songs and select tracks from the album. Alas, and Alas, (acoustic versions) will be out November 15th, and alongside the announcement Lily has shared the previously unreleased single “Fuckhead.”

Lily Seabird is currently on tour supporting Nilüfer Yanya as a member of Lutalo’s live band, and will return home just in time for a run of East & West coast dates alongside Margaux, Florist, and Trace Mountains.

Lily Seabird on “Fuckhead”

“I wrote this one when I was 16 and it felt great to sing on the day we recorded acoustic versions of Alas, songs,” says Seabird. “It was for my friend Emmi who I was in my first band with when we were in high school. We used to think we were really cool and badass for calling each other fuckhead. I haven’t changed the song at all or the title since I wrote it.”

Alas was originally released on cassette in Portland, OR via Bud Tapes on January 12th, 2024, 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).

The songs on Alas, came from a particularly unmoored period for Seabird, including the loss of a close friend to suicide. “I wrote this album in 2021 and 2022 on the road, trying to figure out who I am,” she says. “The word Alas, meant a lot to her, and to our friends following her death. It’s an expression of grief, but also of letting go.” Even if the songs don’t always directly tackle this specific loss, there’s a sense of learning how relationships evolve or dissolve throughout the record. Take “Grace,” a reflection on female friendship, which features the lines, “I hope she’s happy now she should be 25 / She taught me something that I thought I’d always hide.” Elsewhere, the knotty and unpredictable “Dirge” finds her singing, “I don’t know if I believe in god / I don’t know if I know how to go on.”

Alas, Album Art
Tracklist
Lame-O Records

01 Take It
02 Grace
03 Twenty
04 Over and over again (searching for you in the space)
05 Angel
06 Dirge
07 Cavity
08 Domino
09 Waste
10 The end of the beginning

Lily Seabird 2024 Tour Dates

Nov 11 – Washington, DC @ DC9 *
Nov 12 – Philadelphia, PA @ Ortlieb’s *
Nov 13 – Somerville, MA @ Warehouse XI *
Nov 14 – Brooklyn, NY @ Baby’s All Right *
Nov 15 – Burlington, VT @ Foam *
Nov 17 – Brattleboro, VT @ The Stone Church %
Dec 03 – Seattle, WA @ Madame Lou’s ^
Dec 04 – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios ^
Dec 06 – Arcata, CA @ Miniplex ^
Dec 07 – San Francisco, CA @ Thee Parkside ^
Dec 10 – Los Angeles, CA @ Gold Digger s^
Dec 11 – San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar ^

* w/ Margaux
% w/ Florist
^ w/ Trace Mountains

order Alas by Lily Seabird HERE