Destinies with gold linings – LILLI releases their second album which gilds the shards of life
Kintsugi (golden joinery) is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. Japanese aesthetics value the wear marks of the object caused by its use and the repairs are highlighted as an art rather than trying to mask them. As a philosophy, kintsugi is embracing the flaws or imperfections as part of the natural life cycle of the objects.
LILLI has been respecting the same philosophy when working on their second album. The songs are real life stories of broken lives joined from pieces to an album. The songs exude life with all its challenges and ups and downs. None of us survives life without physical or mental dents, but we have to learn to appreciate them in the sense of a person’s spiritual growth.
The group’s debut album was released in 2020, so the band had time to work on the second album for almost two years. Careful maturation has not been in vain, as the end result is a tasteful, high-quality package. The album contains massive arrangements and captivating stories. The songs move musically on the borders of rock and metal music, which creates a pleasant surprise in the content of the album and carries the album brilliantly from the beginning intro to the last song. As a whole, the album’s music is clearly more heavy in style than the band’s debut album, but definitely in a good way.
“We are very satisfied with our new album and during the production process we had the opportunity to work with several highly talented keyboard players, such as Akseli Kaasalainen (Dreamtale), Mikko Kujanpää (Memoremains), Antti Simonen (…and Oceans) ja Marko Karttunen. The visitors bring their own stylish fingerprint to the whole, which brought new drive and musical depth to the songs,” says the band’s bassist and studio chief Sami Halinen. “Some of the stories on the album are quite brutal human destinies, such as the long journey from Friday to Monday caused by loneliness, or the hard work of the nurses and doctors, especially during the last covid years”, the band’s singer Lily Black continues.
Check the music video ‘Back to Life’: https://youtu.be/JV56emEOIDw
Listen to the album on music services: https://push.fm/fl/lilli-kintsugi
Links:
Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/lillitheband/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lilli.theband
Tracklist/ISRC-codes:
01. Repaired in gold (intro) (ISRC: FI3FC2242701)
02. Demons (ISRC: FI3FC2242702)
03. Dead tree (ISRC: FI3FC2242703)
04. Manflake (ISRC: FI3FC2299402)
05. Elude (ISRC: FI3FC2299403)
06. Long way till monday (ISRC: FI3FC2242704)
07. Always there (ISRC: FI3FC2242705)
08. Limits of life (ISRC: FI3FC2299401)
09. Dawn of the night (ISRC: FI3FC2242706)
10. Back to life (ISRC: FI3FC2242707)
11. Dark soul woman (ISRC: FI3FC2242708)
Artist: LILLI
Album: Kintsugi
Catalog number: INV427
Release date: 30/9/2022
All Tracks Lyrics, composed and produced by: LILLI
Sami Halinen
Teemu Harjunen
Lilli Mattila
Petteri Rosenbom
Label: Inverse Records
Mixing: SN-Audio Productions, Sami Niittykoski
Mastering: Alho Audio Mastering, Jarno Alho
Cover art: Markus Koskinen
Music video (Back to Life)
Filming and editing: JJ Productions
