Lily Seabird has dropped new single “Portal to the Past,” the track is off the Vermon artist’s forthcoming album Lightspheres on Their Way, available September 4th physically and October 2nd digitally via Lame-O Records. Seabird elaborates on the track: “Trying to describe what inspires my writing is hard to figure sometimes. A lot of these songs on this record wrestle with time and memory, our perception as it rolls forward, as the past gets further away and the future rolls out infinitely ahead of us. The light as it fades. This song came from a longer poem I wrote after waking from a vivid dream on a friend’s porch in New Orleans. I think writing it in New Orleans brought a special energy to it. The energy is really intense there. Dwelling too much can sometimes create what feels like a portal and bring you right back to where you once were, that’s the portal to the past.”

Following the digital release of Lightspheres on Their Way, Lily Seabird will open for Black Country, New Road across the south.

Seabird wrote most of Lightspheres in a state of transience, contrasting Trash Mountain’s songs which emerged from her home of the same name at the time. She recounts capturing lyrics, on a paper napkin in the back of the van leaving Austin, and writing a song at a coffee shop on an electric bill, moved by the recent death of folk legend Michael Hurley. Recorded and co-produced with collaborator Garrett Linck, Seabird and her band tracked Lightspheres over the first few days of 2026, holed up in Linck’s home in rural Maine.

Lightspheres on Their Way is a testament to the depths one can reach in their art when you stop trying to tell the story of what happened to you, and instead start talking about who you are. “There is a boldness that comes with getting older, understanding myself a little more,” says Seabird, reflecting on the clarity she’s found in the last few years. That clarity and self-knowledge serve as an anchor as Seabird navigates the murky depths, looking into the face of loss, addiction, mortality and disillusionment and meeting it with empathy and genuine care. How do we meet the inevitable moments of change and transition with reverence and bravery instead of fear? With the knowledge that everything is a “lightsphere,” on its way somewhere new, moving away from where and what it’s been.

Lily Seabird 2026 Tour Dates

Thu. Aug. 27 – Birmingham, UK @ Hare & Hounds
Fri. Aug. 28 – Norwich, UK @ NAC
Sun. Aug. 30 – Nottingham, UK @ The Grove
Mon. Aug. 31 – Glasgow, UK @ The Old Hairdresser’s
Tue. Sept. 1 – Newcastle, UK @ Cumberland Arms
Wed. Sept. 2 – Liverpool, UK @ Quarry
Thu. Sept. 3 – London, UK @ The Lexington
Sun. Sept. 6 – Dorset, UK @ End of the Road Festival
Tue. Sept. 15 – Thu. Sep 17 – Nashville, TN @ Americanafest
Sun. Oct. 4 – Pelham, TN @ The Caverns *
Mon. Oct. 5 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle *
Tue. Oct. 6 – Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel *
Thu. Oct. 8 – Tampa, FL @ The Orpheum *
Fri. Oct. 9 – Miami, FL @ Miami Beach Bandshell *
Sat. Oct. 10 – Orlando, FL @ Beacham Theater *
Sat. Nov. 7 – Groningen, NL @ Take Root Festival
Tue. Nov. 10 – Amsterdam, NL @ Tolhuistuin Zonzij
Wed. Nov. 11 – Antwerp, BE @ TRIX

* w/ Black Country, New Road

Pre-Order Lightspheres on Their Way by Lily Seabird HERE