Re-Open the World Lily Lyons

• 1 Cover the Trails 03:34
• 2 Can't be the One 02:42
• 3 57 02:59
• 4 Weightless 02:48
• 5 Reaching 04:07
• 6 Re-Open the World 04:03
• 7 Trip My Step Up 03:59
• 8 Look At You 03:33
• 9 Only Lonely Person 04:17
• 10 Here With You, Jo 02:57
• 11 Holding up the Heavens 04:10
• Total Runtime 39:09

Info zu Re-Open the World

‘Re-Open The World’ is a collection of 10 immaculately crafted songs. Lily’s songwriting across the album captures beautiful vignettes of her experiences in life so far. Perceptive lyrics, delivered in a voice for the ages, examine the multiplicities of self, giving space to it all whilst believing in the power of music to soothe and to heal.

For Lily, music feels like hope - or perhaps, possibility. Growing up split between London and Somerset, making weekly eight hour drives across the country between the base she knew with her mother and the faraway town her father had left for, she remembers the comfort of the car stereo on the open road. As she grew older, struggling to fully realise herself in the world, music was the thing that offered a window to an alternative. She cites Simon and Garfunkel, Nick Drake and Joni Mitchell as formative influences, whilst for her debut album, Lisa Marchiano’s feminist text The Vital Spark provided huge inspiration. The book celebrates Lilith, the woman said to have come before Eve, who refused to be of Adam and was thus labelled the “anti-mother”.

“An ensnaring combination of ethereal melodies, precise enunciation and haunting, up-close vocals.” (Sunday Times Culture)

"Re-Open The World is more than just fragments of flickering light. It is listened to as an inhale, followed by a very deep breath out. Aware of the world’s downward spiral, but rather choosing to stay focused on the fire within her, and keeping the flame alive, Lily Lyons encourages: “it’s really important and a pressing thing that you keep your spirit, and you keep what’s precious and close to you, and figuring out what is precious.” (Karolina Kramplova, noctismag.com)

Lily Lyons, lead vocals, guitar
Alex Haines, guitar
Lloyd Haines drums, percussion
Joel Pott, guitar, bass, piano, backing vocals
Charlotte Schnurr, strings
Jimmy Sims, bass
Tobie Tripp, additional strings

Please Note: We offer this album in its native sampling rate of 48kHz, 24-bit. The provided 96kHz version was up-sampled and offers no audible value!

Lily Lyons
is a singer songwriter from London and Cornwall.

For Lily Lyons, music feels like hope - or perhaps, possibility. Growing up split between London and Somerset, making weekly eight hour drives across the country between the base she knew with her mother and the faraway town her father had left for, she remembers the comfort of the car stereo on the open road. As she grew older, struggling to fully realise herself in the world and to pick apart the often knotty and complicated relationships that had formed around her, music was the thing that offered a window to an alternative.

“There was so much wisdom in the music I was listening to - Simon and Garfunkel, Nick Drake and Joni Mitchell - the tenderness in it was so moving to me when I was 14,” she recalls. “There was this soft world that was so compelling to me, and it introduced me to a soft version of myself that wasn’t as welcomed in my actual life. It showed me that you can be all different things at once and that’s what my music has become - happy but with scathing lyrics, or really sad sounds with a joyful message. The tension of those opposites is really interesting to me.”

And so, when Lily decided on a gut feeling to sign up to music college despite having never written a note, it might have seemed insane to everyone else aside from her mum (“In the past she had kept herself smaller and she liked the idea of me being big,” she smiles). But, to Lyons, it made complete sense. Ensconced in the coastal town of Falmouth with little else to do but pour all her time and efforts into learning her craft, she immediately thrived.

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