October 12, 2016 - Sister duo Lily & Madeleine reveal a brand new video for the track "Westfield", taken from their album Keep It Together, which came out earlier in the year via New West Records. The video features the pair acting in a sinister teen horror flick, with a nods to Stranger Things and the Halloween season, with high production values and a great twist at the end.

The band also announce their first UK shows since the release of Keep it Together, a flurry of dates in support of Dawes at the beginning of November. They'll head to Glasgow's King Tut's on 2nd, RNCM Concert Hall in Manchester on the 3rd and finish off with a flourish at London's Islington Assembly Hall on 4th November.  Lily & Madeleine are currently on tour in America as direct support to Brett Dennen.

Recorded at home in Bloomington, Indiana with producer Paul Mahern, who also helmed Lily & Madeleine’s lauded debut and second albums, Keep it Together is a mature and dynamic statement from two distinct musical personalities, grounded and bound by kinship, that melds seamlessly into an ethereal and enthralling collection. With the help of friends and touring band members Shannon Hayden (cello, mandolin, guitar, Moog) and Kate Siefker (drums, percussion, guitar, bass), Lily & Madeleine take their songs into exciting new territory. Album opener, "Not Gonna," sets the tone for the album and serves as a confident mission statement both thematically and musically as the duo’s beautiful melodies and impeccable harmonies are buoyed by orchestral strings, electronic flourishes, analog synth, piano and a pulsing groove.

Keep It Together is the sound of Lily, 19, and Madeleine, 22, asserting themselves as young women and very much coming in to their own as they learn to navigate adulthood and all that comes with it. On “For The Weak,” an upbeat, chiming slice of indie rock, the pair pine, “so I just gotta know/Is hoping for the weak,” while the sultry “Chicago” deals with a love affair in the Windy City. The album culminates with the devastating “Nothing,” that sees the protagonist self empowered after a broken heart.

Of the project, Madeleine comments, “Working with a closer knit team of just four ladies helped tighten our sound and unify each track into a complete collection. The title of the album is a lyric from the first track ‘Not Gonna,’ which Lily wrote. This simple phrase has a lot of meaning to us: keep your shit together, keep our relationship as sisters together, pressure to keep our image a certain way as young ladies.”

Lily adds, “Along with reflecting on the personal bonds that Madeleine and I both have, I also really wanted to focus more on the bigger picture and write about the experience of being a white woman in America and a college­age kid in the 21st century. As I attempt to further discover who I am as an individual, the way society wants me to define myself is becoming clearer. It seems to me that young people are the same everywhere: regardless of race, gender, or socioeconomic class. All young adults are in the same boat, trying to figure out what makes us individuals and trying to find our value in society.”

Keep it Together follows the prolific duo’s highly-regarded second release, Fumes, and is the their third full-length album in three years, following an EP and two LPs on Sufjan Stevens’ label Asthmatic Kitty. Since their debut in 2013, the duo have performed on significant US TV and radio outlets including CBS’ “This Morning,” KCRW’s “Morning Becomes Eclectic,” NPR Music’s “Tiny Desk Concert” series and “A Prairie Home Companion” and received praise from the likes of Elle Magazine, Vogue and NPR.

In the UK Lily & Madeleine enjoyed coverage in The Sunday Times, Independent on Sunday, Elle, Marie-Claire and Uncut, as well as receiving a Guardian New Band of the Day piece for their debut as well as a double page spread in The Independent newspaper. Fumes was Album of the Day on 6 Music and the band have toured extensively in the UK, including a performance at End of the Road in 2014.

LILY & MADELEINE ON TOUR:

October 12 – Birmingham, AL @ Iron City #

October 14 – Nashville, TN @ City Winery #

October 15 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat's Cradle #

October 16 – Asheville, NC @ Grey Eagle #

October 17 – Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West #

October 18 – Rocky Mount, VA @ Harvester Performance Center #

October 20 – New York, NY – Rockwood Music Hall

October 21 – Portsmouth, NH @ The Music Hall #

October 22 – Hartford, CT @ Infinity Hall #

October 24 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer #

October 27 – Ann Arbor, MI @ Blind Pig #

October 28 – Milwaukee, WI @ Pabst #

October 29 – St. Louis, MO @ Off Broadway #

November 2 – Glasgow, UK – King Tuts^

November 3 – Manchester, UK – RNCM Concert Hall^

November 4 – London, UK – Islington Assembly Hall^

# with Brett Dennen

^ with Dawes

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