Lily Seabird – Lightspheres on Their Way
Vermont-based musician Lily Seabird announces her new album, Lightspheres on Their Way, out September 4th physically and October 2nd digitally via Lame-O Records, and presents a new single/video, “Election Day.”
Lightspheres on Their Way deals in mortality and reverence for the innately human. Across nine tracks, Seabird orbits around the concept of “lightspheres”: a catalysing presence or force that visits time and time again and shifts stories, feelings and trajectories. “A lightsphere can be so many things,” says Seabird. “An actual light like a star, the sun, a UFO; headlights, a flashlight in the night; but also life, living things, people, relationships.”
Since the release of 2025’s Trash Mountain and 2024’s Alas, Seabird’s songwriting has evolved from diaristic narratives to a more observational approach – channeling memories, events, and characters from her life into a collection of songs forged from self actualization and the awareness of how precious and fleeting it all is. Sonically, it’s full of nods and offerings to Bowie, Joni, Elvis, and jam bands like the Grateful Dead and Ween that her mother followed closely in the 80s and 90s.
The ferocious, Albini-channeling lead single “Election Day” is accompanied by a music video produced by the NYC-based Chouette Equipe and directed by Asher Groh, shot on a camcorder while immersed in the woods outside of Bridgeport, CT.. “This song is about having to make a decision and both options are painful, confusing. I wrote this song on election day which works as a great metaphor for this in our current political climate but this song is not about voting. The chaos of painful decisions that are difficult and when it suddenly comes to a point where a decision does have to be made. Getting lost in the darkness, searching for the light,” said Seabird of the single.
Seabird wrote most of Lightspheres in a state of transience, contrasting Trash Mountain’s songs which emerged from her home of the same name at the time. She recounts capturing lyrics, on a paper napkin in the back of the van leaving Austin, and writing a song at a coffee shop on an electric bill, moved by the recent death of folk legend Michael Hurley. Recorded and co-produced with collaborator Garrett Linck, Seabird and her band tracked Lightspheres over the first few days of 2026, holed up in Linck’s home in rural Maine. For a makeshift studio using a woodstove for warmth, Seabird and Linck capture studio-quality sonics throughout.
Lightspheres on Their Way is a testament to the depths one can reach in their art when you stop trying to tell the story of what happened to you, and instead start talking about who you are. “There is a boldness that comes with getting older, understanding myself a little more,” says Seabird, reflecting on the clarity she’s found in the last few years. That clarity and self-knowledge serve as an anchor as Seabird navigates the murky depths, looking into the face of loss, addiction, mortality and disillusionment and meeting it with empathy and genuine care. How do we meet the inevitable moments of change and transition with reverence and bravery instead of fear? With the knowledge that everything is a “lightsphere,” on its way somewhere new, moving away from where and what it’s been.
This summer, Seabird will play a couple of shows with Hannah Cohen, as well as a handful of headlining dates. Afterwards, she will open for Black Country, New Road across the south.
Lily Seabird Tour Dates
Sat. June 20 – Greenfield, MA @ Green River Festival
Fri. June 26 – Brattleboro, VT @ Stone Church ^
Sat. June 27 – Portland, ME @ SPACE Gallery ^
Thu. Aug. 27 – Birmingham, UK @ Hare & Hounds
Fri. Aug. 28 – Norwich, UK @ NAC
Sun. Aug. 30 – Nottingham, UK @ The Grove
Mon. Aug. 31 – Glasgow, UK @ The Old Hairdresser’s
Tue. Sept. 1 – Newcastle, UK @ Cumberland Arms
Wed. Sept. 2 – Liverpool, UK @ Quarry
Thu. Sept. 3 – London, UK @ The Lexington
Sun. Sept. 6 – Dorset, UK @ End of the Road Festival
Tue. Sept. 15 – Thu. Sep 17 – Nashville, TN @ Americanafest
Sun. Oct. 4 – Pelham, TN @ The Caverns *
Mon. Oct. 5 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle *
Tue. Oct. 6 – Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel *
Thu. Oct. 8 – Tampa, FL @ The Orpheum *
Fri. Oct. 9 – Miami, FL @ Miami Beach Bandshell *
Sat. Oct. 10 – Orlando, FL @ Beacham Theater *
Sat. Nov. 7 – Groningen, NL @ Take Root Festival
Tue. Nov. 10 – Amsterdam, NL @ Tolhuistuin Zonzij
Wed. Nov. 11 – Antwerp, BE @ TRIX
^ w/ Hannah Cohen
* w/ Black Country, New Road
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