Daiana Feuer on October 15th, 2018

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Alex Lilly is the star of her own “sexy psychological thriller” — that’s how she describes the sound of her new full-length album, “2% Milk,” out Jan. 11 via Inara George’s new Release Me label. The label itself was created by George to release the music of her favorite musical friends and collaborators. “I met a very young Alex around 2006 when The Bird and the Bee was putting together a live band,” George says. “I started Release Me to shine a light on Alex, and all the other insanely gifted musicians I’ve had the pleasure of working with.” The two of them have sung and played together in both The Living Sisters and Zero Dezire, their crazy band with Barbara Gruska (The Belle Brigade).

For someone celebrating the pleasure of distraction, Lilly keeps very busy. Before embarking on her solo endeavor in 2016 with her “Paranoid Times” EP, Lilly’s previous incarnations include Obi Best and Touché, and her recent occupation has been flying around the world wielding a keytar in Beck’s band. Somehow she found time to write and record the 10 tracks that comprise “2% Milk.” First single “Distracting Me” is a peppy, synthy prance between handclaps and bass that stop and start in a way sort of mimicking the distraction itself. “What better testament to loving someone than when you enjoy their interruptions?” Lilly explains. “I resisted a particular friend’s efforts to distract me for a long time but when I finally gave in, I realized it was fun.”

||| Stream: “Distracting Me”