After the Wythe Sessions (in Brooklyn) we took different tracks to Woodstock and Los Angeles to layer in live drums and percussion, and I went to Atlanta to record final vocals. We’d bring up one of our demos and we’d sit behind the midi keyboard and sift through sounds and ideas and beats and find new things together.

We’d set up our computer, mixing speakers, midi keyboards, and all our weird gear, plus thai food and red wine. We worked in the penthouse of the Wythe Hotel – a floating glass box, a blank slate. We’d send those first incarnations to Clams Casino in New Jersey and then we’d meet up in Brooklyn to arrange the new parts together.

Most of them started in the Hudson Valley, where Eliot and I wrote and recorded vocals, guitars, synths, and beat ideas. “Each song (on Ices) became a collage of times, places, and people. Lia explains the album’s creative process: Ices was recorded during a two year music and spiritual retreat with her “psychic twin brother” Eliot, which began in the Hudson Valley, New York and ended in California, while working in multiple studios along the way. The album is the follow up to 2011′s Grown Unknown (Jagjaguwar) and her 2008 debut Necima (Rare Book Room Records). Lia has previously released a trailer for Ices which you can watch here.

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