I Want The Door To Open

Pairing her simple, unaffected vocal style with carefully synthesized arrangements, the Chicago-based musician departs from her indie-rock foundations in search of musical and personal freedom.

On her aquatic second album, Chicago-via-London musician Lillie West embraces transformation more than ever before.

By the time she recorded her third Lala Lala album, Chicago-based musician Lillie West had already transformed the grungy, lo-fi rawness of her first album, Sleepyhead, into something hookier and less cluttered but still rooted in alt-rock inspirations on the follow-up, The Lamb.

Lillie West’s third album as Lala Lala is a reflection of the self, and all the distortions that make us who we are. I Want The Door To Open is at once introspective and existential, atmospheric and surreal—a distant destination from the guitar-driven focus of 2018’s acclaimed The Lamb.

Lillie West’s third album steers away from lo-fi indie to impressive, light-touch dream pop