(2021) Lily Konigsberg - The Best of Lily Konigsberg Right Now


Review:
It’s an interesting move to begin your career with a best of. But this isn’t really the start of Lily Konigsberg’s career. She has been writing, recording and producing music as part of the off-beat and experimental DIY punk trio Palberta since 2013. More recently, she has been drip feeding her lo-fi and intimate solo material and collaboration pieces through her personal Bandcamp page. Which leads us neatly on to her first widely accessible release as an artist in her own right, The Best of Lily Konigsberg Right Now, a carefully considered collection of music from the EPs 4 Picture Tear, It’s Just Like All the Clouds and Good Time Now (a split release with Andrea Schiavelli), as well as other material released over the years. Konigsberg also has a knack for writing pick-and-mix sized pop songs that linger on your lips for days. “Summer in the City” has all the fresh indie folk appeal of early Feist and the balmy brass of Beirut. The gleaming power pop nugget, “7 Smile” is led by an acoustic guitar, strumming Strokes-esque riffs, and warm fuzzy guitars marbled throughout and “It’s Just Like All The Clouds” is an air-whipped auto-tune future-disco lullaby. Her auto-tune experimentation blossoms with dark beauty on the synth-pop gem “Owe Me”, a gritty neo-noir lament, that is all dark nights and neon lights, evoking the stench of exhaust fumes and petrichor, through textured production and sampling. What we get is a glimpse into the world of a prolific, experimental and confident artist who has been criminally overlooked. The charming, indie pop recordings soar way above the simplicity of their bedroom production, thanks in kind to Konigsberg’s deft touch, inventive writing style and diligent approach.





Track Listing:
1.Owe Me 03:35
2.To Hold It 02:37
3.Rock and Sin 03:00
4.7 Smile 02:33
5.At Best a #3 01:28
6.It's Just Like All the Clouds 02:05
7.I Said 01:48
8.Summer in the City 01:57
9.Good Time Now 01:40
10.Lily's National Anthem 00:58
11.Waterfall Snake Juice 01:17
12.Talk to Me w. Birds 01:52
13.Roses 01:45
14.North Porsche 02:16
15.I Don't Like the Name 02:13
16.Big Tall Grass (demo) 02:11
17.Opening the Day (demo) 02:22


Media Report:
Genre: indie-pop
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits