lilo - Blood TiesOne of the best new British bands around, lilo are releasing their debut album exclusively on vinyl first as a Dinked Edition, presenting it in a stunning mirri board gatefold sleeve and pressing it on glass clear vinyl with a bonus 7 added. Friends since meeting in their first week at secondary school, Christie Gardner and Helen Dixon write songs that cut deep, reflecting the life of twenty somethings, in and out of love and luck. While informed by a

The record ends with a side long solo steel string piece that sounds equally at home next to modern guitar players like Tashi Dorji (who released his first LP on Hermit Hut) as classic American Primitive players such as Robbie Basho

Lee had found the beginnings of “Home Dog” on a dusty old 4-track and he had recorded “Strange Love” on his iPhone in 2014

in Asheville

which Arm says “add a really nice touch to the proceedings

A couple tunes (the chiming closer "The Nights Are Made for Us" and "I'm on Nights

but it is sadness of a rarified form: the pensive

to list a few

For their debut compilation

The band was fronted by the occasionally cross-dressing Randy "Biscuit" Turner

personal transparency in full bloom

Eric recalls

As Lily puts it