The Lily’s – Everything Wrong Is Imaginary

It’s harder and harder to keep up with new music. But occasionally I stumble across a gem and The Smudge of Ashen Fluff is usually the place I find them.

The Lily’s album, Everything Wrong Is Imaginary, is a bit of a genre-bender it mixes straight ahead indie-pop, with radiohead-like atmospherics and creative instrumentation, techno-esque rhythm for a good driving beat and dance club fun for bobbing your head
and tapping your feet. The kicker is some very creative but not overdone guitar work, sort of Johnny Marr-ish, just when you’re thinking, this is good, a killer hook drops in. Hard to describe, but very enjoyable. And it has real legs because it shifts styles often but gracefully and therefore provides a lot of variety.

Probably the most played album for me in 2006.