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Lily We Need to Talk Now

by Lily Konigsberg

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Beauty 00:29
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Alone 02:33
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Proud Home 02:05
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Hark 02:28
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Bad Boy 01:57
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Roses, Again 02:13
10.
Goodbye 01:34
11.
True 02:53

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Lily Konigsberg wrote “Sweat Forever,” one of the singles from her forthcoming full-length album, Lily We Need to Talk Now, in the heat of a moment when her life felt upside down and a longtime relationship was ending. “I’m still here / Is that what you wanted?” she sings, with light and clarity that belies the true sadness of that sticky refrain. The song is propelled by the feathery strum of a 12-string guitar (one gifted to her while she was working at the Gym, a Brooklyn mutual-aid hub), her playful vocal asides, and crisp, detail-oriented production by Nate Amos (Water From Your Eyes, My Idea).

Lily We Need to Talk Now is a record Konigsberg has been slowly chipping away at since 2016, revising and re-recording the songs over the years. The eleven-track collection is her first proper full-length, following her anthology of EPs and unreleased tracks, The Best of Lily Konigsberg Right Now, released in 2021 by Wharf Cat Records. The new record is catchy the whole way through, like much of the poppy and plainspoken indie rock output that’s made her a fixture of the NYC underground in recent years. Her voice twists and turns and dashes around her clever wordplay in new ways here; there are hints of power pop, pop punk, and downtempo introspection, all dotted with easter eggs of winking humor. She’s joined by many of her longtime collaborators: Andrea Schavelli, with whom she released the 2017 split Good Time Now; Matt Norman, with whom she has collaborated in the avant-pop duo Lily and Horn Horse for years; Paco Cathcart, of the Cradle, who produced her 2020 EP It’s Just Like All the Clouds; and Nina Ryser, with whom she plays in the acclaimed art-punk trio Palberta. But it’s her collaboration with Amos that makes the most notable new additions.

True to its title (taken from a text message sent to Konigsberg by Amos), this collection of songs is like a check-in with herself. On “That’s the Way I Like It,” with backing vocals from Cathcart, Konigsberg reflects on the feeling of struggling with a loved one. “You can get all evil about it—like a brat, like a baby,” she says. On “Proud Home,” she sings one of the record's boldest earworm hooks (“You’ve got a lot of fucking things to be proud of!”) and tries to comfort a friend who has a crush on her mom. “I really cracked myself up with the lyrics,” she says. “It’s kind of a ‘Stacy’s Mom’ riff. I decided it’s a dedication to Adam Schlesinger [of Fountains of Wayne].” But Konigsberg's lyrics aren't happy all of the time. “There’s a lot of sadness or strangeness in them,” she says. “This album is clearly about breaking up with somebody that I love. But, in all of my music, there’s humor. I don’t take myself too seriously.” 

Konigsberg's sense of humor is on display in “Hark,” an infectious and light-hearted track about the frustrations of songwriting. It was originally written for her quarantine project with Palberta bandmate Ani Ivry-Block, Forever. “I hate the fact that I belong to something that needs my help or else it will die,” she sings gracefully about her unfinished tunes, before joking, “You can look, but don't touch / That part’s a mess / Leave it to me,” backed by a bouncy bassline and horns, her voice occasionally wrapped in a touch of autotune. “It’s an odd song but weirdly catchy,” she says. “My musical life is kind of encapsulated in it.” 

Konigsberg has been writing songs all her life. Born and raised in Brooklyn, she started playing solo sets around NYC clubs as a teenager, before linking up with Bard classmates Ryser and Ivry-Block to form Palberta. “They’re the reason that I’m such a confident performer,” Konigsberg says about her Palberta bandmates. “We learned to perform together, and now I’m genuinely not scared when I go onstage. They’re my sisters, and they inspire me to just do me.” Despite this being her namesake project, Konigsberg’s biggest influences remain her friends and collaborators, and the project generally has the feeling of a collective effort. “I just love all of my friends, and I’m really happy that some of them are part of the record. Charlie, Hugo, Nina, Paco, Andrea, Matt, Nate. They inspire me a lot.”

Lily We Need to Talk Now explores the rollercoaster of grief that accompanies a heartbreak—and the rush of exciting things that come next. The album ends aptly with “True,” a cathartic, high-energy rocker that Konigsberg says captures “the feeling that you can’t live without someone—but you can.” She compares the end of a relationship to a death. “You can't imagine someone in your life not being there, and then they’re not there. And sometimes you’re happy and laughing, and sometimes you’re mourning. But life does go on.”

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released October 29, 2021

Lily We Need To Talk Now

Songs written by Lily Konigsberg (except Bad Boy written by Lily and Nate Amos)
engineered/mixed/produced/mastered by Nate Amos
3,6,9,11 engineered by Sasha Stroud and Nate Amos

1. Beauty
Andrea Schiavelli - Piano

2. I Can Make You Sweat Forever
Lily Konigsberg - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Nate Amos - all other instruments and programming

3. That’s The Way I Like It
Lily Konigsberg - Vocals, Guitar
Hugo Stanley - Guitar
Nina Ryser - Drums
Charlie Dore-Young - Bass
Paco Cathcart - Vocals

4. Alone
Lily Konigsberg - Vocals
Cal Fish - Flute
Nate Amos - all other instruments and programming

5. Don’t Be Lazy With Me
Lily Konigsberg - Vocals, Keys
Matt Norman - Horn
Andrea Schiavelli - Piano
Nate Amos - Samples

6. Proud Home
Lily Konigsberg - Vocals, Guitar
Hugo Stanley - Guitar
Nina Ryser - Drums
Charlie Dore-Young - Bass

7. Hark
Lily Konigsberg - Vocals
Matt Norman - Horn
Paco Cathcart - Vocals
Nate Amos - all other instruments and programming

8. Bad Boy
Lily Konigsberg - Vocals
Nate Amos - all instruments

9. Roses, Again
Lily Konigsberg - Vocals, Guitar
Hugo Stanley - Guitar
Nina Ryser - Drums
Charlie Dore-Young - Bass
Andrea Schiavelli - Piano

10. Goodbye
Lily Konigsberg - Keys
Matt Norman - Horns

11. True
Lily Konigsberg - Vocals, Guitar
Hugo Stanley - Guitar
Nina Ryser - Drums
Charlie Dore-Young - Bass
Andrea Schiavelli - Piano

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