lilo

lilo are back with their new single ‘Crash The Car’, a track that brilliantly glues together the two sides of the band - with gentle, hushed folk arrangements being offset by raucous noise and abandon. Alongside this new single, lilo are announcing a headline show at The George Tavern in London on 10 April 2025. The band are currently on tour with Brown Horse, all remaining dates are listed below.

The band say of their new single: “It’s about having unbridled rage at a man who has hurt your best friend, a product of being so angry yet feeling isolated on the outside, where your upset builds so much you physically can't hold it in anymore. ‘Crash the Car’ explodes like we wish we could, you want to kick his teeth in so instead you make a song.

Having introduced themselves with their two brilliant EPs ‘Sleep Country’ (2022) and ‘I Don’t Like My Chances On The Outside’ (2023), childhood friends and musical collaborators Christie Gardner and Helen Dixon are embarking on the next stage in their journey. From writing songs whilst at school together in Winchester a decade ago, their music has been developed gradually over the intervening years, lending them an assuredness that comes from longevity and a lightness that comes from their youth. 

Gardner describes their music as “a little window into our lives that we get to keep forever,” but it goes deeper than that: indeed, when Dixon talks we see it as a window to each other, the influence for songs coming from a life they have shared, questioning “what’s it like for that to happen to you? And what’s it like to watch someone you love go through it?”. It can, at times, be difficult to separate one voice in lilo from the other, and this bond extends beyond the music and into their lives as Dixon admits that “Christie and I live pretty intertwined lives; more or less everything that happens to me, she is the first person I call. As a result, we’re writing about each others’ lives as much as our own.” 

It’s this unforced and natural intimacy that is so endearing about lilo. Yes, they discuss “sad” themes, and have “the usuals, heartbreak and so on,” but to really listen to their music is to discover a remarkable resilience and understanding of real people who have lent on each other, and their art, to navigate their experiences and feelings.