Lila Tristram previews her debut studio album with single “Sounds Like Easter”, available on all major streaming platforms on 9th May 2024.
After two years hidden in a remote countryside studio, Lila opens a new chapter. Having spent four years crafting a name for herself with her atmospheric, bucolic folk releases, she put together a 5-piece band, including Heledd Owen (Prima Queen, Adwaith) on drums, Tim Gardner (RY X) on synth, Ailsa Tully (Dalliance Rec.) on bass, and Jack Handyside on lead electric guitar.
Her latest offering, “Sounds Like Easter”, is the very first single; it is an intense and brooding song about love and loss, with heavy guitars and atmospheric synths, the song steadily builds into an epic finale; a bearing of desperate, yearning love in a devastating and passionate performance. Echoes of Lila’s past releases, “Our Friends” (2020) and “home” (2023) filter into the listening experience, with deeply romantic lyrics sung so softly and intimately, that you can hear the gentle wavering in her voice. “We dance like you’ll never go / we twist into perfect flow”.
Yet as “Sounds Like Easter” reaches its climax, the song takes a turn. In a bold and endlessly brave expression of emotion, Lila repeats the line “I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you”, each time getting louder and growing in intensity, until her voice can barely take it, and she erupts into a scream. The band takes over; a cloud of passion and energy. Anyone who has ever been madly in love will relate to the kind of rage-inducing desperation it can evoke, and none expresses it so well as Lila Tristram in this song.
Even in the new, more rich and powerful context, the fragile, emotional content of Lila’s songwriting and gentle harmonies reamin clearly recognizable, sounding like an anticipation of what’s to come with her new album.
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