Sweet Pea by Lila Blue
"If someone asked me to tell them who I am, I’d give them this record." - Lila Blue
Sweet Pea is eleven dynamically evocative songs follow Lila through the tenacious pursuit of healing from sexual assault, the trying transformation from child performer to adult artist, the embrace of their nonbinary identity, and an unabashed celebration of queer pleasure. Lila says, “I felt like I'd been writing to an ‘other,’ without realizing that ‘other’ is the person I wanted to become. I’ve been actualizing my own healing, manifesting the person I am today.” Titled after Lila’s childhood nickname and birth flower, Sweet Pea is a spring unto itself.
Lila Blue’s sound vibrates with a heart-over-head rawness, their dynamic vocals spanning semblances from Fiona Apple to Margaret Glaspy, Ani DiFranco to Lucy Dacus, over an instrumental sensibility that’s bright, Bluegrassy, and feral.
Recorded in Nashville at MOXE, and working with veteran producer Jordan Brooke Hamlin, an incredible environment was created that allowed Lila to push their boundaries and create music that was intense, vulnerable, personal, and beyond any one genre.
Tracklist
| 1. | Sweet Pea | 2:25 |
| 2. | Changeling | 3:03 |
| 3. | How Could I | 4:23 |
| 4. | Stranger | 3:07 |
| 5. | I Met the Devil | 3:07 |
| 6. | Keep Your Mind On Me | 3:07 |
| 7. | There Is a Drought | 3:06 |
| 8. | High On a Hill | 3:54 |
| 9. | Down and Out | 5:41 |
| 10. | Lovely Day | 1:50 |
| 11. | Take Me Down | 3:04 |
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Credits
Produced by Jordan Brooke Hamlin
Recording and Mix Engineering by Jordan Brooke Hamlin
Assistant Recording Engineer: Lake Wilkinson
Recorded at MOXE, Nashville TN
Mastered by Jett Galindo, The Bakery, Los Angeles CA
Atmos Immersive Mix by Maddie Harmon
Musicians:
Lila Blue - vocals, acoustic guitar
Damon Daunno - lap Steel, electric guitar, percussion, drums, backing vocals
Gabriel Ebert - ukelele, piano, percussion, backing vocals
Ashely Frith - viola, violin, percussion
Jordan Hamlin - organ, synth bass, drums
Saskia Lane - upright bass
Phil Roebuck - resonator guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, violin, drums, backing vocals
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LILA BLUE (all pronouns) is a 24 year old non-binary and queer folk musician, singer-songwriter, playwright and performer based out of Brooklyn. Their projects navigate themes of grief, joy, intergenerational trauma, rage, queerness and collisions with divine and haunted spirits, stemming from their own intuitive practices. They've released 3 LP’s, 2 EP’s, with LP 4, SWEET PEA, arriving 11/10/23