Stilljill is a female-powered modern rock trio from Los Angeles. They blend indie pop with psych-rock using a distinct combination of vast, reverby open tunings, huge, often syncopated drums, and newly added vocal harmonies and swelling synth. Stilljill is the brainchild of Alex Stills (vox + guitar), Jill Parker (drums), and the recent addition of Anina Denove (vox + keys).
Their debut EP, Waterslides (out 26th June and recorded when the band was a two-piece) has been premiering as singles since October 28, 2019. They kicked off the series of releases with their first single “Bake”, a vast, swelling song that blends themes of the California drought, ancestral pain, and self-reflection. Stilljill celebrated that release with a packed show at the Bootleg Theater and Anina joined the band around the same time.
Waterslides, the EP as a whole, is about women and fluidity. It’s also about the adaptation, anger, love, and acceptance that constitutes the general human experience. The songs on the EP respectively traverse between personally lived stories and the grander narrative of our modern world – like the reality of climate change, navigating life as a woman, heartbreak, cultural and political injustice, the LGBTQIA+ experience, and vulnerability. Where “Bake” opens the story with surrender, Waterslides closes it out with a sense of deep, reflective excitement for the unknown ahead.
That sense of excitement is intensely palpable through a swelling intensity that permeates this invigorating new single, the percussion and guitar harmonics are edgy and defiant, laying a pathway for this trio’s future which is one you’ll most certainly want to watch closely.
https://soundcloud.com/stilljillband/waterslides-master/s-MKJK2
Waterslides is out today and was recorded at Seahorse Sound Studio and produced by Billy Burke of Gooey Music Productions.
https://www.stilljillband.com/