Electronic Producer Lilles In The Valley Of Violets Brings Along Annie Maxwell For Underground Hit “F.E.M.”

The alter ego of Philadelphia-based electronic music producer Aaron Sternick, Lilies In The Valley Of Violets channels his passion for dark emotive house music and earworm songwriting into upbeat synth-driven dance music. On his latest single “F.E.M”, those moody aesthetics are countered with the glossy and angelic vocals of Annie Maxwell, giving the synth-pop tune an ethereal club quality.

On the song Lillies in the Valley of Violets Aaron Sternick says: “Annie and I go back a few years. We collaborated on her album Keystone (2020) and again on my first single “With You”. While working on the latter, we had a backup single from an early batch of pandemic demos – Annie sent me an incredible voice memo track with hooks galore and in between the “With You” session we’d come back to this track and bounce ideas off one another. What I see now is that “With You” taught us a lot of lessons about production and developing hooks and grooves that we would apply with MUCH greater success to this new track.

The project LIVV actually started as a much more angry concept – welcoming to all kinds of feelings of rage, despair and loneliness as long as they weren’t coming from cismale voices. Annie used this song as an opportunity to send up the Bezos/Musk/Zucc technoRATi and offer a healthy dose of appreciation for becoming less online. Annie never minces words or skimps on lyrical delivery and I am extremely proud of how strongly the message of “F.E.M.” comes across“.

A pulsating four-to-the-floor beat and dancy synthesizer melodies give “F.E.M.” its charming energy, as Maxwell elevates its feel-good energy with her irresistible vocals.

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