Liily, Dallas

Liily are four Los Angeles musicians- Dylan Nash, Sam DeLa Torre, Charlie Anastasis & Maxx Morando - who, up until now, were mostly known for their manic and cacophonous live shows. Those performances, alongside a couple of early singles packaged together into an EP entitled I Can Fool Anybody In This Town, drove the band to some surprising early successes: performing at Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo, touring across Europe and the United States, then finding themselves on the cover of Spotify and Apple Music’s major rock playlists. But then, as quickly as they appeared, they seemed to vanish. Almost two years later, and now all of 22 years old, the band returned with their debut album TV or Not TV in October. It is a highly aggressive record, even more so than their early work. But here they jump from moment to moment and genre to genre, creating an experimental and original set of songs, all more strange and abrasive but also far more three-dimensional than anything the band has done before. It still contains the unbridled energy of those early shows and singles but feels stripped of anything passive or unintentional. “I think thematically it’s very different,” says singer Dylan Nash. “I think the intensity of it is very different. I think we had the same intention though which is to completely obliterate people’s eardrums - that’s what it still has in common.”