Lily Lyons announces forthcoming debut album, Re-Open The World

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"Can't Be The One" finds Lily Lyons reveling in "allowing the stroppy, pissed off version of myself" to be voiced, whilst simultaneously acknowledging the devastation of having to let someone go. She explains: "It’s the story of walking away from someone and also kind of being aware that you love that person, that you can still love them and need to not have them in your life. Allowing opposites to be true at the same time. Anger, giving up and dissatisfaction are embraced in this track but they coexist with love and lightness. A more two dimensional version of the song would have picked one or the other. The truest depiction of the feeling was to hold both the fury and the love."

For her debut album, Lisa Marchiano’s feminist text The Vital Spark provided huge inspiration. The book celebrates Lilith, the woman said to have come before Eve, who refused to be of Adam and was thus labelled the “anti-mother”. "The book is about celebrating when it’s quite good to let your inner Lilith come out: to say, ‘No, I’m not gonna take care of you and take on your crap because I also have dreams and things I want to do in the world’,” she says. “I’m not seeing my life as a vehicle for someone else. It’s its own thing, and it’s for me."

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