Lillie West of Lala Lala will release the instrumental album, entitled if i were a real man i would be able to break the neck of a suffering bird available Friday, April 5th via Hardly Art Records (La Luz, Colleen Green). Today, she has shared a video for album track “holyholyholy” Directed by Lillie West and Tilde Tornbjerg.

if i were a real man i would be able to break the neck of a suffering bird is West’s first release under her own name and was written and recorded during a residency at the LungA Land program in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland. The album collects 8 new instrumental compositions, with collaborations from Baths and YATTA.

Lille offers this on the new single: “‘holyholyholy’ is the first instrumental track I made. There are things going on beyond our control, bigger than we could ever comprehend. Magic is everywhere. I’m just trying to express that.”

Lillie West on if i were a real man i would be able to break the neck of a suffering bird:

“Most of ‘if I were a real man I could break the neck of a suffering bird’ was written and recorded in January 2022 during my residency at the LungA Land program in Seyðisfjörður Iceland. Seyðisfjörður is a town of approximately 650 people on the east coast of Iceland, and during winter the sun never enters the fjord. Some of the acts the other residents and I took part in throughout the program included; making knives, backpacking in a blizzard, learning about Icelandic herbs, geology, history, having a lymegrass themed dinner party, sleeping outside. I also made field recordings of the environment around the town – ice, grass, water, rocks, snow, animals, people.

I had never considered making an instrumental album, nor was it my intention while taking these field recordings. Thus the process felt very natural, organic, almost private. I hope that the music is able to invoke the rhythm, sway, and connection I felt with the landscape in Seyðisfjörður, as well as my ongoing attempt to communicate with the divine.”

– Lillie West, 2024

if I were a real man I could break the neck of a suffering bird is the first official release by Lillie West, the creative force behind Lala Lala. The album follows a string of acclaimed releases with Hardly Art, 2018’s The Lamb, 2021’s I Want The Door To Open, and most recently 2023 singles “HIT ME WHERE IT HURTS” and “Armida.” Lillie is currently at work on her next album.

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