Lydia

On July 13th, the band Lydia released their seventh album entitled “Liquor” via Weekday/RED Music. “Sunlight” is the name of the lead single from this collection. Produced by the band and Eric Palmquist, “Liquor” marks Lydia's first release for a label in a decade. Work began on this collection after the group came off the road from promoting 2015's “Run Wild,” working separately in their own home studios and also convening for a session at California's Big Bear Lake that yielded three songs for the album.

"For this one we took more time, over the span of maybe two years" Lydia front-man Leighton Antelman explains. "We didn't seem to rush it as much as some of the other albums have been. Some of the songs feel like we've had them forever, but they seem to be pretty cohesive for taking that long of a time to record."

"I don't know if we really have anything we're trying to prove with it by any standard," Antelman says. "We'd write music regardless of if we were putting out a record, I think."

When the Arizona-based indie-rock project initially formed in 2003, a high school-aged Antelman was mostly just messing around and having fun writing songs with his friends. When high school ended, Antelman enrolled at Arizona State but, only a year in, realized higher education wasn’t right for him. So, as an experiment (and, he notes, against every older adult’s recommendation), he hit the road with Lydia. Now it’s 14 years later, and he’s been churning out albums and touring ever since. The trio, which now features core trio Antelman, Matt Keller, and Shawn Strader, all live in the Phoenix suburbs and continue to collaborate on new material.

In support of “Liquor,” Lydia will be touring throughout the rest of the summer with dates spread out all over the U.S. 

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