Lilly Hiatt – Forever
Lilly Hiatt – Forever
Format: CD – Vinyl LP – Digital
Label: New West Records – V2 BeNeLux
Release: 2025
Release date: January 31, 2025
‘Forever’ was a record that was written and recorded one track at a time with my husband Coley. After scrapping about 20 songs or so I had written the last few years, I wanted to get to the heart of things.
I had a great talk with a friend on the phone and she mentioned she just wasn’t sure where I’d been. I realized I wasn’t really certain of that either. It’d been a foggy few years after 2020, and the pieces seemed to just be starting to be picked up. I had fallen in love, gotten married, had a dog, a house…things I had always dreamed of. But it took me quite some time to accept them as my life.
For a bit, I felt like an outsider watching myself stumble though everything, and was constantly critiquing myself, to the point where I could hardly leave the house for a bit. But then I realized my life was passing me by, and the love I was living in required presence to accept.
I started to do the little things you have to do to just show up for people: listen, grow, change, write….get outside of my own problems. Time is flying, and I want to be here for it all rather than lost in my thoughts all the time. My love is forever.
When I was a kid I used to say to my mom and dad “I love you forever and always” then neurotically changed it to “I love you forever and always and it’s true and I mean it”…because I wanted to make sure they knew how much I wasn’t messing around! I still feel that way when I say “I love you” to anyone and hope it comes across on this record. Love y’all forever! – Lilly Hiatt
Website: https://www.lillyhiatt.com/
Tracks:
01. Hidden Day
02. Shouldn’t Be
03. Ghost Ship
04. Somewhere
05. Evelyn’s House
06. Forever
07. Man
08. Kwik-E-Mart
09. Thoughts