Lia Ices probably couldn’t have written “Grown Unknown” without taking a break from Brooklyn. Released in January 2011 on Jagjaguwar, the singer’s sophomore album collects nine impressionistic fairy tales, each song a misty sylvan dream world unto itself. The music is airy, uncluttered, and untouched by civilization. Prospect Park and Green Wood Cemetery have their dark, secluded spots, but as refuges from civilization—places capable of inspiring the kind of wonder and dread hissing beneath the quietude of this record—Brooklyn’s premier green spaces have nothing on rural Vermont, where Ices spent last winter writing. – Read Ken Partridge’s interview with Lia Ices here.
Lia Ices graced the cover of the winter 2011 issue of The Deli – read it here. This is the video of the single Daphne.
"Daphne" by Lia Ices from Secretly Jag on Vimeo.