Lily Seabird didn't want to name her new album Trash Mountain. "It's kind of a gross way to describe a place that's really the center of my community," the singer-songwriter — real name Lily Seward — explained in a video call from her room at the pink house in Burlington's Old North End known colloquially as, yep, Trash Mountain. Close proximity to a landfill gave the house its name, but its recent history as something of a clubhouse for the Burlington music scene is what ultimately inspired the record's title. "My friend Ryan always used to say, 'The world is trash,' and we'd laugh about it," she said, referring to her late friend Ryan Collins, whose death in 2022 threads through many of Seabird's songs. "But it's pretty ironic that the place that has held me the most literally has the word 'trash' in it. So eventually I abandoned all of the other shitty titles I had thought of and just called it what it is." Trash Mountain, which drops on Friday, April 4, on Lame-O Records, is Seabird's third LP. It represents a sonic shift for the 26-year-old, a move away from the grunge and darkness of last year's Alas and into country and folk territory. As Seabird noted, only four songs on Trash Mountain have drums, a subject of some anxiety on her part. The new album coincides with a new phase of her career. Following several years of hard touring as a solo artist and supporting her friends and fellow Vermont indie rockers Greg Freeman and Lutalo, as well as Nashville, Tenn.'s Liz Cooper, Seabird has gone pro. The former Vermont Public Interest Research Group employee has decided to go all in on music. "I just counted recently, and I've been on 26 different tours," she said with an exhausted laugh. "I feel more like myself when I'm on tour than when I'm back home." Indeed, there's a line in the album's title track that sums up Seabird's struggles readjusting to life off the road: "Coming home, it's so easy for you / but I just forget things and remember them / looking for something to do," she sings in a twang-inflected melody, the slight quaver in her voice eliciting a sense of both intimacy and confusion. Becoming a road warrior is just one aspect of Seabird's continuing evolution as a musician. When she first… ...read more read less