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LILA DREW
releases new track
+ video
LILA’S THEME
+ announces full length
debut album
ALL THE PLACES I COULD BE
out 11 NOVEMBER
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Photo credit: Vincent Haycock
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“L.A. native with a voice so smooth that it reminds you of the sunshine of her hometown.”
– THE FADER
“..a matter of time before Lila Drew is a household name.”
– ATWOOD
“..the perfect representation of the dreamy and smooth songs she is bound to serve up in the future.”
– ROLLING STONE
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London-born/LA raised pop singer-songwriter Lila Drew has today released her latest song and stunning ballad Lila’s Theme. Lila has also revealed the official music video for Lila’s Theme, directed by award-winning director Vincent Haycock (Billie Eilish, Harry Styles, Florence & the Machine) and shot at Luis Barragan’s iconic Casa Prieto Lopez outside of Mexico City. Today, Lila has also announced her full length debut album All The Places I Could Be, which will be released on November 11th via AWAL.
On new track Lila’s Theme Drew shares a gorgeously untethered piece inspired by her then-recent reading of Joan Didion’s iconic essay The White Album. “A lot of Lila’s Theme is about Joan Didion’s essay … She talks about 1968 in Los Angeles in such a poignant and unromantic way. And she was the first woman I’d ever read who talked about mental health with such honesty. I just love her work so much and it’s inspired a lot of my music and my non-music writing. I was thinking a lot about how communication was just so vastly different in the time she was writing “The White Album” versus the time I was writing Lila’s Theme. How our relationships have changed so much because of the changes in communication. That’s what Lila’s Theme is all about, and a really central theme to a lot of the songs I’ve written.”
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The accompanying video clip for the ballad is testimony to Drew’s unique artistic vision Her collaboration with filmmaker and artistic director Vincent Haycock – a remarkable and multi-dimensional auteur is known for his work with artists like Florence + The Machine, Paul McCartney and Leonard Cohen – has created an immersive visual world to experience the songs in. “My biggest goal in all of the creative for this record was that it served the songs first and foremost — that each video, each piece of artwork stayed true to the spirit of the music,” says Drew. “When working with Vince, he really saw me and all of those imperfect elements both in who I am naturally and in what I tried to create in the music. He never asked me to create a new persona — he only asked me, and everyone else involved on screen, to be naturally reactive.”
As to the sourcepoint Drew says, “we were really inspired by 90s campaigns — Helmut Lang ads, Dave Araki films and I was particularly inspired, visually, by Tracey Emin. I love her short films that she made in the 90s. They were so honest and talked about sexuality and femininity in all of their strange elements in such an honest and funny way.”
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On her upcoming full-length album All the Places I Could Be the 22-year old Yale student offers up an intimately detailed account of self-discovery in real time. Lila transforms all the unease of young adulthood into high-impact pop songs, tapping into the refined musicality she’s honed since writing her own material from the age of 10. Her debut full length is unparalleled when it comes to her songwriting, examining a multitude of themes and conversations revolving around coming-of-age with both unblinking introspection and poetic observation (an element the Yale student also applies to her work in creative nonfiction).
Like contemporaries Clairo, Beabadoobee and others, she’s examining what it means to come of age, But All The Places I Could Be focuses on something more layered and specific to her generation- the way in which technology both enhances and inhibits interpersonal connections and real life experiences. Graduating high school in the pandemic and spending her first year at college learning via zoom has all been a source of inspiration for the record. In her song Crystal Ball she sings “and I’ll be different I promise, comfort in the in between, and I’ll be different, just static behind the crystal screen.” The result: an endlessly fascinating body of work that firmly establishes Lila as a vital new voice in left-field pop, capable of capturing the most complex feelings in high-impact songs with strangely timeless power.
With the help of Haycock as creative director, the theme of interpersonal connections can be seen throughout the album visuals as well. Different kinds of relationships between humans, puppets, and anime characters, are featured in the album artwork and in the music videos.
Endlessly mesmerising in its unpredictability, All The Places I Could Be encompasses a stripped-back yet sharply detailed sound that foregrounds Drew’s quiet revelation of her inner world.
All The Places I Could Be – Lila Drew, out 11 November via AWAL
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LILA’S THEME
– out now via AWAL
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ALL THE PLACES I COULD BE
– out 11 NOVEMBER via AWAL
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