S.Lo on July 30th, 2021

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Following last month’s onslaught return with their rap-hardcore single “I Am Who I Think You Think I Am,” San Fernando Valley indie punk quartet Liily volleyed their second musical Molotov of the year with today’s release of “Odds Are It’s Blue.”

The song creeps between the asphalt cracks of industrial, progressive and hardcore with its disjointed syncopated rhythms, laser-blast synths and screeching dissonant guitar by Maxx Morando (drums), Sam De La Torre (guitar) and Charlie Anastasis (bass). Singer Dylan Nash torches it all together in distortion-laden angst and ambivalence. It’s the Clash’s “Should I Stay Or Should I Go” sliding sideways off the table in an uncontrolled heatwave.

Of the ambivalence, Nash said, “‘Odds Are It’s Blue’ is about battling with the fear and indecision that comes with relinquishing all forms of control over one’s life and learning to be comfortable with letting things be and transpire the way they’re supposed to.”

Both new singles, released via Flush Records, are produced by Joe Chiccarelli (The White Stripes, My Morning Jacket, Cherry Glazerr, Morrissey, the Strokes, Bleached, Cafe Tacvba, Frank Zappa, Oingo Boingo and more) and mixed by Alan Moulder (Nine Inch Nails, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Ride, My Bloody Valentine, Swervedriver, the Killers, The Jesus and Mary Chain, U2 and more), with visuals directed by Sam De La Torre.

In a message to fans, the band announced that all who purchase tickets to their upcoming New York and Los Angeles shows can receive a link to a secret instrumental album (more info here).

||| Stream: “Odds Are It’s Blue”

|||Live: Liily plays the Troubadour on Oct. 29. Tickets.

||| Also: Watch the videos for “Odds Are It’s Blue” (with a seizure warning) and “I Am Who I Think You Think I Am”

||| Previously: Live at  the Fonda Theatre, “Wash,” live at Echo Park Rising, “Sepulveda Basin,” “Toro”