Lily Seabird shares Lightspheres on Their Way, the title track of her album

Lily Seabird has released Lightspheres on Their Way, the song that gives her coming album its name. It follows three earlier previews from the record, The Afterglow, Election Day and Portal to the Past, and lands last of the four despite being the title track.

The image in the title is deliberately unfixed. Seabird says lightspheres take on different forms throughout the record, standing at various points for UFOs, memories, dreams, people and an unknown force pushing and pulling us through. Without being too specific, she says, the song itself deals with the feeling of loving someone across a great distance.

The arrangement has a stated source. Seabird says she was thinking about Brent Mydland, the Grateful Dead's keyboardist from 1979 to 1990, and that the end of the song is inspired by his I Will Take You Home, specifically the studio version on 1989's Built to Last.

That end section was not written. Seabird says the outro is her favourite part of the song and that it was completely improvised in the studio and kept as recorded, which explains why it sits apart from the rest of the arrangement rather than resolving it.

Recording was a three-way effort. She credits working out the arrangement alongside Daniel and Rick, and describes the session as genuinely fun, a word that does not usually attach to a title track carrying the weight of an album's concept.

Lame-O Records releases Lightspheres on Their Way on 2 October. Seabird has been building the album out through the year, and the Burlington songwriter has expanded her touring behind it into December. The indie release is listed on the release calendar.