Lily Seabird has kept busy over the past four years between releasing two solo albums and filling in on bass for Greg Freeman, Lutalo, and Liz Cooper on tours. Just over a year since releasing her Alas, LP, the Burlington-based artist is now announcing another new album called Trash Mountain—her first for Lame-O Records, who reissued Alas, shortly after its release. The title comes from an endearing nickname for a house she shares with friends, coined for its location “on top of an old landfill on the edge of town. I moved almost two years ago,” she notes, “but friends have lived there and it’s been passed down for over 10 years. There’s a lot of community history there. I love my home and my community very much.”
The near-title-track “Trash Mountain (1pm)” (there’s also a song on the tracklist called “Trash Mountain (1am)”) is a scruffy folk-rock tune that recalls the burgeoning scene out of Asheville as it pairs ramshackle indie-rock instrumentals with vivid storytelling about rural life. “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 shares. “I kinda just ended up […] feeling really grateful for my friends and roommates, my house, the community that I live in, Vermont, the snow, little things.”
Seabird also shouts out the band Florry—her recent tourmates and current housemates—and their song “Big Fall” on the track, as well as her late friend Ryan, who frequented the titular house. “It’s really strange how a lot of our close friends wound up moving in here after she passed,” Seabird recalls. “She feels very tied to it, spiritually. She always used the word ‘trash’ a lot—‘The world is trash,’ she’d say in, like, the most funny, endearing way. Her Instagram was full of pictures of garbage that would show up after the snow would melt. Something poetic about that.”
Check out the video for the track (co-directed by Seabird and Jack Seward) below, and pre-order Trash Mountain here ahead of its April 4 release.
