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Sleep Country

by lilo

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1.
Change 02:53
Now I’m knowing me I would jump straight in To feeling like a team Like it’s us, against everything Now I’m knowing you And what you’re wanting I’m a clown, on the stage Im an actor in their place I like change When its good I’d count the days If I could I'm your baby girl But I’ve been around the world Im not on my own Don’t know what it is to feel alone Im tired, in your arms I wish honesty weren’t so hard I like change When its good I’d count the days If I could
2.
Real love Doesn’t touch or set alight Real love Doesn’t come it’s already behind To brush your hair Sitting above you Like an angel telling you straight Me on a chair You on the floor As I look you right in the face And I see my own eyes Greyed out of hue See my false beach sunset due The rocks and the sea The warm on my feet Like the salt airs just for me Real Love Doesn’t touch doesn’t spindle and fold Real Love Is anger beyond, love knocks you out cold Walking uphill Nettles and flowers Up to my knees and red on my shins Under the current Breathe in the hours As your hands they lift up my chin And I see my own eyes Greyed out of hue See my false beach sunset due The rocks and the sea The warm on my feet Like the salt airs just for me
3.
Scarecrow 04:11
Stuck in reverse with my spit on your collar Told you I would said you don’t need to bother Pleading and pouting I’ve caught you red handed Pull on my coat if you don’t understand me I’ve got my eyes Locked on your face Older than arrows And I’d be afraid I’ve got my eyes Locked on your face Pulsing and furrowed We can see you’re afraid I am a grown up and I’ll make my own way home Scared of the memory cry where have the days gone Eaten and blown up and passed on the wind blows Time watches for me and sits like a scarecrow I’ve got my eyes Locked on your face Older than arrows And I’d be afraid I’ve got my eyes Locked on your face Pulsing and furrowed We can see you’re afraid Smile so politely oh what is this for you Listen so sweetly punch holes through my bedroom Mother all other my body’s my armour A utopic emblem I raise her I taught her And I’ve got my hand There on the gun I wish you could see me I’d hope that you’d run And I’ve got my eyes I don’t need to pretend I wish you could hear me When I say it’s the end
4.
Losing 03:29
I will never take from a friend We are what we share And I’d share my hands Sharing a day it turns into years And we hold our in laughs As the choir boys stand I’d share my pride and I’d let it die Cos I know that you’re right And I know that you’re kind You’d have my chest when you sleep on the train South London goes by You know I don’t mind Losing never changes I’ll hold your neck as we press our heads Together as one Our team is the best I’d share my time what it divides me by A family tree Or Just one of the guests Losing never changes I’ve been losing for you
5.
Somekind 05:01
Take your hairpins out And put them to the bedside Glasses on the table And turn out If i chose to speak Then it would come easy And if i chose to pray Then i’d be doing it for days Because my mind’s made up When it’s in my head And it was midnight And your eyes rolled back And in the lamplight Oo you didn’t come back And if i had to Oh i could say That it was your fault Oh i could say I woke up here And i was on the train from Florence My ears pressed up Against the cold glass And if i let you go Then all of this could be forgotten To carry you out To lift you from the bottom Come on rest easy But don’t rest too long And it was midnight And your eyes rolled back And in the daylight Oo you didn’t come back And if i had to Oh i could say That we lost you Oh i could say Oh and isn’t it a wonderful life Living like we do And we’ve seen more than that And i was always, always just looking at you And isn’t it a wonderful life Living like anyone can Oh, heaven can sit here with me Oo she’s a woman with the earth in her hands And it was midnight And your eyes rolled back Some kind of pleasure Some kind

about

Though London-based duo lilo have only recently emerged, theirs is a bond that runs a decade deep. Christie Gardner and Helen Dixon met at school in Winchester aged 11, and from that day forward have forged an unshakeable creative bond with their gossamer harmonies and finely-spun acoustic arrangements.

It’s a sound that calls to mind the ethereality of Laura Marling, but that is only the first glimpse of the versatility of lilo’s sound, their new material is set to break new ground in the UK indie-folk landscape. They hold the promise of a more full-bodied, band-driven direction, weaving elements of slow-core and offbeat country-pop refractions.

lilo began recording their debut EP ‘Sleep Country’ with close friend and collaborator Joseph Futak in August 2020. Over the five tracks that make up the EP, Christie and Helen explore new perspectives on love and friendship often through the frame of loss. Despite this, the tone remains distinctly hopeful and chooses to treasure the small things in the face of larger sadness.

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released January 28, 2022

All songs written by lilo
Produced by Joseph Futak
Mastered by Christian Wright at Abbey Road Studios

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