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Viridian Torch is a departure for Lily. Since her early days in The Colorifics, we were used to thinking of Lily as a creature of the urban landscape, of the night, a torch singer and chanteuse in the Julie London tradition, whose sultry singing is best imagined soaring above the smoke of some dimly lit nightclub or speakeasy. But for inspiration, this time, Lily has tapped into the wilderness of Canada, of ancient trees, terrifying electric storms, irritating insects, and romance with the land, as expressed in French poetry—specifically, a corner of Lake Huron her family has called its own for three generations. "In a way it's a love letter to my mother, who shared nature's intricacies and joys with me throughout my life. It's the place where I've always felt the most grounded. Viridian Torch is the best way I can express the deep sense of strength and profound gratitude it gives me." Meanwhile, Lily, who looks like a cross between Bettie Page and Ava Gardner, and is almost impossible to imagine in a place that doesn't prominently feature skyscrapers—and who always seems quite at home in a cocktail dress, sipping her signature drink, the espresso martini—says she can walk "blindfold and barefooted" over the rocks of her home turf; learned to "read the sky" and when it's going to rain (a skill she says served her well in the city, when one city afternoon she amazed an incredulous cab driver by jumping in his cab and telling him "it's going to rain in about 2 minutes," sure enough within a block it started to pour). The disc also draws inspiration from another quintessentially Canadian source: the Group of Seven painters, and their friend the writer, painter, and prototypical feminist Emily Carr. Their work, with its deep connection to the Canadian landscape, helped propel her to write about her own emotional connections with the earth, trees and stars, fires and storms, sun and moon. And there's even a song about mosquitoes...