Bless This Life, by Lily & King

Bless This Life

by Lily & King

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1.	Flatlands 03:05	buy track
2.	Bless This Life 03:57	buy track
3.	Geisha Girl 05:18	buy track
4.	One Man Show 03:47	buy track
5.	Bondi Junction Baby 04:49	buy track
6.	Oh Sailor 05:34	buy track
7.	Revelator 03:07	buy track
8.	Bret Whiteley's Woman 02:53	buy track
9.	Dancing Stars 02:23	buy track
10.	Blue Light Disco 03:10	buy track
11.	Down By The River 03:02	buy track
12.	Pocketknife 08:05	buy track

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Lily and King are celebrating the release of their second album: ‘Bless This Life’, produced by ARIA award winning guitarist Matt Walker.

Lily Baird delivers a luring, sensual haze of smoky-opiate vocals and rapturously disrespectful brass (playing trombone, trumpet and tuba throughout), while Tony J. King slams a rhythmic driving junkyard of guitars and percussion.

The twelve track album, which has a distinctly Australian flavour (“Bondi Junction Baby” and “Brett Whiteley’s Woman”), takes listeners to tangled spaces – from the all-in bluegrass orgy of the title track to mesmerising and delicate seaside waltzes, passionate wailing klezmer (with violinist Alex Burkoy-Tinpan Orange), and crunchy down-home blues.

Walker’s inimitably understated and honest production style underpins ‘Bless This Life’, and captures all the energy and wild romance of the duo’s live performances. It is an absolute must listen.

All songs written by Lily and King copyright 2016.

Recorded at Stovepipe Studios by Matt Walker & Rowan Matthews.
Produced by Matt Walker.
Photography by Rowan Matthews
Mastered by Adam Dempsey - Deluxe Mastering

credits

released December 20, 2016

Lisa Baird - vocals, trombone, toy piano, percussion, pump organ.
Tony King - vocals, guitars, banjo, double bass, kick drum.
Mat Walker - hammond organ trk 2,5,10,11 / piano trk 2 / banjo trk 2,4,8,11,12 / vocals trk 1,2,3,7,9,10,12 / mandolin trk 5,6 / bottlenek guitar trk 1,7 / harmonica trk 7,8 / mellotron cello trk 3 / organ trk 8,12.
Alex Burkoy - violin trk 4,5,11.

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Lily & King Melbourne, Australia

An acoustic junkyard - blissful, beautiful, dirty and wicked.

They play hot Dixieland punk dotted with haunting seaside lullabies and street corner stomp. Their set sits somewhere between a captivating 40's nightclub routine and the raw, reckless spirit of New Orleans street buskers. ... more

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