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Possibly the only thing harder than starting over is coming back. Lillix is doing both.

The sisters Tasha-Ray and Lacey-Lee Evin, who formed the band in Cranbrook in 1997, release their third album on Tuesday. Titled Tigerlily, which was the original name of the band, the album is a new beginning but by veterans who aren’t even 30 years old.

“We’re not signed to a label,” notes Tasha. “So we’ve done everything on our own. We hired a publicist, we manage ourselves …”

And they’ve expanded to a five-piece with the addition of Alex Varon, Cameron Brass and Eric Hoodicoff, who will hit the road upon Tigerlily’s release. This is different from when Lacey and Tasha were 13 and 11 years old, and Tigerlily was an allgirl quartet.

Tigerlily signed to Madonna’s Maverick label and changed its name to Lillix under company pressure. That should have been an omen. Before it tanked, Maverick released two albums by Lillix ( Falling Uphill, Inside the Hollow), which underwent changes of personnel and endured meddling, even threats, from the company.

Left in tatters by 2007, Lillix shut down while Tasha and Lacey went about rebuilding the band. Tigerlily, which is a short nine concise songs, took a year to record, during which the two women not only expanded their musicianship but learned about sound engineering. Rather than a raw, back-to-the-basics record, it’s polished, even slick, which masks some of its hurt and lessons learned.

That shouldn’t be too surprising. Even though the two had to overcome the old prejudices faced by allgirl groups, as well as the suspicion that any group so young had to lack credibility, Tasha (now 25) and Lacey (27) had toured, achieved a gold record in Japan, placed a song on the Freaky Friday soundtrack and notched a few Juno nominations.

Tigerlily, then, is not the work of a band back at the drawing board, but more along the way. They know what a record should sound like and also know the tough road ahead of them.

“We’ve been in a band since 1997,” exclaims Lacey. “We can’t just stop.”

“It’s been up and down like a roller-coaster,” Tasha observes. “One day you’re down, the next you’re go-go-go.

“There’s no pressure now,” she continues. “We can do what we want.”

“I think a key to our band is the voices, being sisters,” figures Lacey.

“It’s pop music,” Tasha adds. “It’s pop. When we were younger we were a little ashamed of that.”

Now they want to prove themselves. They’ve come a long way from working with The Matrix (which also wrote most of the first Avril Lavigne album) to writing solely on their own while learning to handle their business affairs. Making Tigerlily has forced Tasha and Lacey to answer some tough questions and rediscover their music.

“We’ve had a lot of doors slammed on us,” Tasha says. “It made us think, ‘We can’t do this!’”

And made them think again that maybe they can.

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Lillix Learning To Be A Duo Again
by Kate MacRae (CHARTattack)

Can we call it a comeback?

Well, call it whatever you will, but it’s clear the creative forces behind Lillix, Tasha-Ray and Lacey-Lee Evin, have been hard at work on their first release since 2006’s Into The Hollow.

“I feel so much excitement towards it because we put so much work into it,” Tasha-Ray says. “We have full-time jobs, and every Friday, we’d be in the studio.

“We’re so proud of finally finishing it. It’s been a long time coming, I guess you could say.”

Lillix have also been going through some lineup changes, most recently with the addition and departure of guitarist Britt Black. She left Lillix in late 2009, which prompted the name of their new album, Tigerlily.

“The reason we named it Tigerlily is because we were called Tigerlily when we first started, when we were just kids in elementary school,” Tasha-Ray says. “That’s when we were having fun, recording and playing every show we could get and we wrote all our own material.

“We were doing it all on our own, and that’s kind of where we’re at now with our new record. The focus is on Lacey and myself, the sisters. We stated Lillix in our basement, so it all originates from us anyway.”

Tigerlily is also Lillix’s first release since they left their former label, Maverick, with whom they released their 2003 Falling Uphill debut album and Into The Hollow.

This is a large step for the band, as it means they’re entirely responsible for funding the album, something they’ve never done before.

“It’s scary because you have no idea what to expect,” Tasha-Ray says. “After all, it’s just us doing it; we fund our own music. But that’s what a lot of artists are doing now; it’s almost like you have to.”

With a fall tour coming up and a video for their new single “Nowhere To Run (Girls With Guns)” on constant rotation on MuchMusic, it doesn’t seem like the Evin sisters have too much to worry about in the future.

“It’s about having fun with the crowd and we’ve become way more laid back onstage,” Tasha-Ray says. “We just want to get the crowd into it and feed off their energy and get people dancing. That’s what we’re all about.

“But really all you can do is be yourself and create music that you like and hope that other people like it. I can’t predict the future, you know? I wish I could but then that would be kind of boring.”

Tigerlily will be in stores on Aug. 24. You can check out the video for “Nowhere To Run (Girls With Guns)” below:

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Album Art by: Alex Varon

Our new album “Tigerlily” will be in stores across Canada August 24th, 2010! We really hope you like it!

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Hey guy’s, hope your summer is going great!

Wanted to let you know that our new video “Nowhere To Run” will be premiered on Much Music this friday! We just found out that it will be on heavy rotation too! This is amazing news and we are very thankful to everyone who has supported us!

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