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She has noted on Twitter, amid the occasional Hannah Montana quotation, that while journalists compare her sound to “cool” ’90s bands, her most direct influence is the pop group Aly & AJ’s 2007 album, “Insomniatic.” (I hear traces of the alt-rock mainstays Letters to Cleo and the cheery indie-pop group Velocity Girl.) When she was 18, she thought, “Well, I’ve learned a lot of covers. Later in her teen years, Trifilio started participating in neighborhood jam sessions and teaching herself cover songs. That increased ambition is apparent across “Emotional Creature,” out July 22, from the bright, explosively catchy leadoff track “ Entropy” to the thrilling, nearly six-minute finale, “Love Song,” which in its satisfying final moments weaves together a medley of several other songs from the album.

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“So after listening to her talk about production, going in I was like, ‘OK, I don’t really know how to do this, but can we make the beginning have this vibe? Before, I never knew to bring in those references.” “I think it’s cool that she’s an all-in-one show and does everything hands on,” Trifilio said of Grimes, citing her aggressively upbeat 2015 single “ Kill V. When the band started recording its second album, “Emotional Creature,” at Chicago’s Shirk Studios last spring, she felt more empowered to experiment.

She watched YouTube tutorials and countless interviews with producers who inspired her, like the electro-pop star Grimes. Perhaps to combat those fears, during the pandemic, Trifilio taught herself about music production. On albums she’s known for the emotional lucidity of her songwriting, which seems to trap fleeting feelings in shimmery amber. Onstage, she’s known for her bubbly, earnest positivity at a recent Beach Bunny show, she gave an enthused recommendation for a local vegan restaurant, urged the audience to get their Covid-19 booster shots and led the entire crowd in singing “Happy Birthday” to a fan. Trifilio has a wide, toothy smile and a choppy bobbed haircut that she likes to dye different colors - magenta, lilac, rust - though that day it was a naturalistic blonde. “Over the pandemic, Beach Bunny has grown like 200 percent,” Trifilio continued, between sips of an iced Nutella mocha latte at a cafe not far from the venue, “and I don’t know what to expect.” Beach Bunny’s recent success had seemed abstract to Trifilio, since most of it had happened during lockdown, on the internet, but the group’s biggest New York show to date would make it tangible. It was the day before her indie-rock band Beach Bunny would headline a sold-out show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn. “I’m honestly so nervous,” the singer-songwriter, then 24, admitted, her voice rising as she shook her head. One morning last August, Lili Trifilio was feeling emotional.

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