Happy New Year and welcome back to the Afterglow Echoplex, a shoegaze, dreampop, noise-rock, et al. and etc. collaborative mixtape podcast! On this very special episode of the show we invite you to enjoy the unearthed soundz of the one... the only... the Lilys!

Or, more notably, rare, previously unreleased*, compilation appearance, and alternate take Lilys tracks produced by Kurt Heasley and his roving band of variously assembled merry makers. 

Side One

1. Any Several Sundays *
2. Salad Bar *
3. Tra-La-La (Live) *
4. Excelsior Plainside
5. Won’t Make You (Sleepy) *

Side Two

1. Touch the Water *
2. More Than That is Deserved
3. Kodiak *
4. Right Thing to Do *
5. The Berated Escape
6. Dreams Never End
7. Well Traveled is Protest
8. Good King Wenceslas

This podcast would not be possible without the contributions, insights and generosity of one Mr. Kurt Heasley. Thanks, Wally!

Links-a-plenty: 

• Frontier Records' Lilys Bandcamp page.
• Sundazed Records' Lilys page.
• File 13 Records’ Selected EP Bandcamp page.
• Speakertree Records' "Well Traveled is Protest" SoundCloud page.
• Lilys - Live in Amsterdam at VPRO Studios.
• Colorful Acts, In the Presence of the Lilys tribute compilation on Bandcamp.
• Kestrels' album, Better Wonder, featuring the song "Lilys."
• Everything Wrong Is Imaginary trailer.
• Returns Every Morning Geocities site.

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