Lily DeTaeye’s Vinyl Debut Is a Love Letter to Liminal Space

There’s a certain magic to songs that live in-between – the hours between dusk and dark, the feelings between falling apart and healing. On Studio 3 Live at Iowa PBS, Lily DeTaeye dwells in those in-betweens, and in doing so, crafts her most resonant work to date.

The Des Moines-raised, New York-based songwriter is no stranger to transformation. From early blues-laced EPs to her dreamy full-length Hive Mind, she’s shaped her identity through slow-burning reinvention. But her new live album – recorded in one sitting, unintentionally, at Iowa PBS – feels like a gentle homecoming. Releasing October 24 on vinyl via Buy Before You Stream, and digitally on November 21, it’s a document of an artist caught in motion and fully present.

The album’s standout single, “Maybe It’s November,” captures this ethos. It’s a song of quiet resignation, evoking the slow drip of seasonal depression and relationship grief. “It’s just the weather,” she tells herself in the lyrics – but we, and she, know better. It’s about the empty space someone used to fill.

This sense of emotional proximity pulses through the entire album. There’s no overdubbing, no studio trickery – just DeTaeye and her band, sounding like they’re in your living room. It’s storytelling with the windows open and the lights dimmed.

Pressed at Third Man and delivered through Midtopia’s artist-first initiative, the vinyl feels like a philosophical stance: music should be held, lingered over, shared.

Catch her this month at Boone Songwriters Festival or Brooklyn’s Artmageddon, and you’ll hear the same intimacy that fills Studio 3 Live. These aren’t anthems for arenas – they’re songs for porches, parks, and those lingering late-night drives when the fog won’t quite lift.

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