Lily Konigsberg’s debut solo LP Lily We Need To Talk Now is due out October 29th on Wharf Cat, and today she is sharing a final pre-release single from the album, a track called “Proud Home.” Following her well-received EP from 2020, It’s Just Like All The Clouds, (Pitchfork described it as a collection of left-field pop that sits “at the center of a Venn diagram containing haunted dolls, Arthur Russell, and Ariana Grande” in a Pitchfork Rising feature), and a compilation of her early solo recordings culled mostly from Bandcamp and Soundcloud releases entitled The Best of Lily Konigsberg Right Now (FADER called it “[a showcase] of Konigsberg’s breadth as a pop songwriter“), she announced the record with the single “That’s The Way I Like It” which received an enthusiastic response, being described as “eclectic-yet-infectious” by The New York Times, and “Sweat Forever” which premiered via NPR’s All Songs Considered.
Recorded (like the rest of the album) with producer Nate Amos (whose project Water From Your Eyes recently released their critically-acclaimed LP Structure), “Proud Home” channels a post-punk adjacent pop aesthetic that recalls The Cure, though Konigsberg claims a quite different inspiration for the track.
“This song was inspired by a fictional story I made up in my dreams about my mom being Stacy’s mom,” she says. “It’s a song dedicated to Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne, who passed away from Covid at the very beginning of the pandemic. I have always loved Stacy’s Mom so much and after his death, realized he wrote a ton of his songs that I really love. Appreciation for a pop ghostwriter.“
This week Konigsberg has announced a release show for her album at Union Pool on November 14th. Tickets are available here: https://bit.ly/AdHoc-LilyKonigsberg