Sweet Pea, by Lila Blue

Sweet Pea by Lila Blue, released 10 November 2023 1. Sweet Pea 2. Changeling 3. How Could I 4. Stranger 5. I Met the Devil 6. Keep Your Mind On Me 7. There Is a Drought 8. High On a Hill 9. Down and Out 10. Lovely Day 11. Take Me Down "If someone asked me to tell them who I am, I’d give them this record." - Lila Blue Sweet Pea is eleven dynamically evocative songs follow Lila through the tenacious pursuit of healing from sexual assault, the trying transformation from child performer to adult artist, the embrace of their nonbinary identity, and an unabashed celebration of queer pleasure. Lila says, “I felt like I'd been writing to an ‘other,’ without realizing that ‘other’ is the person I wanted to become. I’ve been actualizing my own healing, manifesting the person I am today.” Titled after Lila’s childhood nickname and birth flower, Sweet Pea is a spring unto itself. Lila Blue’s sound vibrates with a heart-over-head rawness, their dynamic vocals spanning semblances from Fiona Apple to Margaret Glaspy, Ani DiFranco to Lucy Dacus, over an instrumental sensibility that’s bright, Bluegrassy, and feral. Recorded in Nashville at MOXE, and working with veteran producer Jordan Brooke Hamlin, an incredible environment was created that allowed Lila to push their boundaries and create music that was intense, vulnerable, personal, and beyond any one genre.