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The Lilys - There's No Such Thing As Black Orchids

The Lilys are the last of a dying breed. With a resume that spans two decades, the band has never made the same album twice. Let alone the weirdness of their debut, In the Presence of Nothing, The Lilys went the ambient route on Eccsame the Photon Band in 1995, brought forth a brilliant Merseybeat-revival masterwork in the form of 1996's Better Can't Make Your Life Better, and by the new millennium, were making fairly straightforward (and frankly, kinda boring) records like Precollection. Helmed by one Kurt Heasley, The Lilys chameleon-like dexterity lent itself nicely to Presence, an album that bowed downed to k-pop gods My Bloody Valentine. If Loveless was the main course, the Lily's crooked homage was the after-dinner mint...and a sometimes sour one at that. Heavy-handed to say the least, Heasley and his crew brew up a smoldering, swarmy swill here, wherein over-flanged strings are the primary backdrop to an unwieldy predisposition for dynamics, and even the occasional sublime hook. The third song in, "Collider," driven by a disarmingly ethereal harmony, is almost an anomaly. "Tone Bender" is a dichotomy of the Lily's ferocious rhythm section, rubbing shoulders with the songs more listener-friendly attributes evidenced in the aforementioned "Collider." In fact, much of Presence is a veritable conflict between these two diverging paths. Unarguably, the album's sheer dissonance makes for a challenging listen, but truth be told, the only selection I wish the Lilys had eschewed is the meandering 12-minute instrumental "The Way Snowflakes Fall." Luckily, they redeem themselves by following it up with the comparatively poppy "Threw a Day," which wouldn't have sounded out of place on Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation. The title, In the Presence of Nothing, is a parody on Velvet Crush's debut, In the Presence of Greatness, which saw the light of day mere months before the Lily's album. In the Presence of Nothing is currently out of print, but can be found used on Amazon. The band tends to take Chinese Democracy-length stretches between albums and eps. Just so you know. (text by wilfullyobscure.blogspot.com)