Lily Fitts Releases Debut Album “Getting By”
Lily Fitts is a Boston-based singer with punchy lyrics that make you want to know more. Coupled with the acoustic indie-folk sound she has created for herself, these lyrics tell the story of a girl navigating her twenties in the best way she knows how, writing. Fitts has put out many singles and EPs, and has been featured on Sam Barber’s Restless Mind. This week she released her debut album Getting By. With ten songs sitting at exactly thirty minutes, there are plenty of themes to be explored.
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She opens with “I Don’t Owe You Shit”, and with a dynamic title like that who isn’t intrigued? There are hints of echoing harmonies and her fervent lyrics about moving forward beyond someone she’s outgrown.
Another stand out song for me on this album was “Good Riddance”. It kind of goes in tandem with the opening song but it explores more cheeky ways of moving on. I became obsessed with the chorus “It was good until the good was done/Boy nothing you did with your tongue felt as good good good as Good Riddance”. Hearing that for the first time made me gasp. It is so refreshing to have artists like Lily Fitts to poignantly put what we’ve all felt in sharp words. A lot of her writing packs a certain punch that makes you have to rewind to catch it fully.
It is sweet and it’s indie and folky, but there’s some guts to it.
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The title track of the album “Getting By” discusses heavier themes about family, friends, and growing up. She explains how the loss of a loved one shifts the way a family operates for better or for worse, but through it all but they’re ok. Being in your early twenties is one of the most confounding times of our lives. As a 24 year old myself, I relate to her feelings of not knowing what’s next but pushing through anyways. It’s uncertain and it’s daunting, but we always make it through.
She explores this theme further in “In the Dirt”. Fitts explains what vices she has turned to to make sense of the world and how unpredictable it can be at times. The power behind songs like this is that they remind us that we are not going through this alone.
Lily is going on her first headlining tour in the fall. Mad at your ex and need a good post-breakup album to scream at the top of your lungs? Lily Fitts is your girl! Confused 20 something feeling isolated by feeling lost? Lily Fitts is your girl! Claim your “I knew her before she got big” tickets now!