“Lilies” is the second single of Quiet Sonias upcoming full-length debut album, “QS” (this version being a single edit, it’s part of a longer composition). It’s a slow-paced yet ever-evolving chamber-rock piece with a haunting, dark tone, recorded entirely live and perhaps greatly epitomizing the aesthetics of the forthcoming “QS” album as a whole: An exercise in attentive listening and feeling, delicately working with subtle shifts in texture, tempo, dynamics, improvisational elements and the artistic use of silence. Drawing inspiration from acts such as Low, Talk Talk, Jason Molina, The Necks and Bark Psychosis, “Lilies” is a sprawling yet intimate long compositional structure heavy on mood and atmosphere conveying sadness and anger, fear and triumph; an attempt of a distillation of aching, anguished beauty.

Recorded entirely live in a candle-lit studio over the course of a weekend at The Royal Danish Academy of Music, Quiet Sonia’s debut full-length, “QS”, is the first recording with the whole seven-piece group, paying homage to a certain bunch of classic rock records with a distinctive “live” or “band” feel such as Songs: Ohia’s “Magnolia Electric Co.”, Van Morrison’s “Astral Weeks” or Cowboy Junkies’ “The Trinity Session”. Not at least the way recording worked (before multitrack-recording) when you recorded straight-to-tape, literally cut a track in wax! With a certain raw, stark quality - and no overdubs - this record is all about the core of the songwriting, the quality of the group’s interplay and the momentaneous energy of the individual performances. An exercise in attentive listening and feeling - delicately working with subtle shifts in texture, tempo, dynamics, improvisational elements and the artistic use of silence - the result is a certain warmth, urgency and intimacy perhaps too rarely experienced in rock music nowadays. “QS” is a big, wide open - sprawling yet intimate - noisy, raw and emotional chamber-rock/folk/post-rock record that we hope you’ll enjoy as much as QS enjoyed making it.