My Idea

The duo of Lily Konigsberg (Palberta) and Nate Amos (Water from Your Eyes) started challenging each other to "mess with different sounds" in 2020 and became fast friends as they compiled some of the resulting quirky, multi-genre-referencing indie pop songs on That's My Idea, their 2021 debut EP under the moniker My Idea. While remaining in their bands and, in the case of Konigsberg, releasing solo material, the productive songwriters followed it nine months later with the full-length Cry Mfer. The pair first met when Konigsberg approached Amos -- by then producer of albums for Dark Tea and Thanks for Coming as well as for Water from Your Eyes -- about producing her solo debut. He said yes, and Lily We Need to Talk Now was released in October 2021. Their bands Palberta and Water from Your Eyes also put out albums that year (Palberta5000 and Structure, respectively). In the meantime, the two of them formed a tempestuous, briefly romantic friendship involving competitive songwriting, heartbreak, sobriety, and more that produced dozens of songs. After signing with Hardly Art, the duo released five of them amidst the frenzy of other releases in 2021 on a July EP titled That's My Idea. Sharing songwriting and producing credit, they followed it up with the debut album Cry Mfer in April 2022, also on Hardly Art.
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