Deluxe Version of My Debut Album Coming Soon

Hello my beautiful readers,

I feel like I’ve been so MIA this year. I’ve missed you. I’ve missed sitting down and actually writing to you like this. PROMISE to blog and vlog lots this year. Hold me to it. Life has felt full and fast and emotional in all the ways that make time slip through your fingers, but I finally have something I’ve been dying to tell you!!!!

I’m currently working on four brand new songs for a deluxe version of my debut album, Cinematic. It feels surreal even typing that out. There were a few more stories in the LKCU (Lily Kincade Cinematic Universe) that I wasn’t ready to close the book on just yet. I wanted to share them here first, quietly, with you, before they live anywhere else.

The first deluxe track is Reverse Psychology, a longtime favorite of mine. She’s moody and nostalgic and rooted in a past relationship that still lingers in certain corners of my memory, whether I invite it or not. This is a night drive song. The kind you play when the world is quiet and your thoughts are loud. The production feels cinematic in that way that makes you stare out the window a little longer than necessary, pretending you’re in a movie about your own life.

The next song is People, Places, Things, which I wrote on my birthday. A relationship had ended, but the reminders didn’t. I was surrounded by everything we said we were going to do, all the places we planned to go, all the people we talked about visiting. It felt impossible to move on when every detail of my life kept pulling me back. This song holds that feeling of trying to let go while everything around you refuses to cooperate. Such a frustrating feeling!!!

Then there’s Tell Me One Thing. This one is wordy and emotional and very honest. I’ve realized that I love truly getting to know people, and sometimes that love isn’t returned in the same way. Sometimes people don’t want to know you. They want the idea of you. I had this quiet, slightly devastating realization one day that someone in my life didn’t really know me at all. They didn’t ask about my feelings, my inner world, my heart. This song feels like that final moment where you’re asking for something real. Like, please, just tell me one thing so I can stay.

The fourth and final deluxe track is Nothing Left to Break, and it’s incredibly close to my heart. I shared the writing demo on SoundCloud, which I’ll link here for you, because it felt too important to keep to myself. This song marks the end of a chapter. It’s about finally being on the other side of something. Wanting to let someone back in, but knowing you’ve already been through too much. Knowing that closing the door is an act of self-respect, not bitterness. It felt right to end the Cinematic era here.

I’m really grateful I got to share this with you first. I am so grateful for you, and I promise I’m going to start writing here more. But for now, this is your first sneak peek into the deluxe songs, just between us.

Sending you so much love. Don’t forget to stream my debut album Cinematic, out everywhere now. I also just released the music video for Lesson to Learn, and it feels dreamy and magical in all the ways I hoped it would. I hope you LOVE it!!!

Xoxo, Lily