Lily Kershaw – Pain & More

Today, Los Angeles singer/songwriter Lily Kershaw is happy to announce that her anticipated new album Pain & More will be released on September 13, 2024. 

The facetiously named Pain & More is an emotionally tactile and exquisitely executed album that confronts the many incarnations of the prolonged, persistent depression that Lily has masked in front of others for decades. Pain & More may be her third full-length, but it’s the first in which she was able to reach a quiet within herself, allowing a wellspring of truth to rush out in these songs. “I’ve been struggling for so long,” says Kershaw, who wrote and recorded it over two years. “This record is like a new cycle of my life.”

She shares the news with a new single called “Poem Song,” the first she specifically wrote with this concept album in mind while in the midst of a depressive flare-up.

The piano-based folk ballad that builds into a swirling emotional release originally came out as a nine-minute stream of consciousness poem-like song.  Lily says, “‘Poem Song’ is a song about self-acceptance, and how maybe self-acceptance is actually the truest form of rebellion, of healing.”

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