Lily Arminda is a pop star with the thigh tat to prove it. With gut-pouring melodies accelerating loves me loves me not lyricism, she’s impossible to forget.

Matador red boots are the superstar’s signature, first worn for Heaven or Las Vegas’ Valentine’s Day opening. Arminda saw future labelmate Renny Conti across the dancefloor there that same night. Not sure how to place him, she rummaged through saved albums finding People Floating only by hazy memory of its cover. She later signed to Urban Scandal Records, the Oakland label she met through their ties to Conti.

This fateful evening was right before the whirlwind desert romance in El Paso, Texas that inspired DTR, made with indie duo TOLEDO. Since then, her band has graced the stages of Baby’s All Right & Rubulad + hosted a beloved house show series alongside friends like cowboygirl & vern matz. Her stage presence was fostered as a teenager, opening solo for Lucy Dacus & Benjamin Francis Leftwich and playing Bunbury Music Festival with headliners Blink-182, The Chainsmokers, & Post Malone. All of these shows were a match strike to her current set & the making of her much anticipated debut album, Swoon.

As a songwriter since she could sing, heat of the moment instinct is what she accredits catchiness to. Her melodies cut to the core of a feeling, while her lyrics sway between memory & imagination with intention. She captivates in this sweet spot with emotion on the pedestal. Even her unreleased songs have appeared in dreams after first listen, crowning her not only unforgettable, but inescapable.