Lila Jarzombek

Nowhere Flower - Ruts the Place LP is here! Originally released to cassette in April 2024 it’s now available on vinyl in an edition of 100. Thanks so much to @radicaldocuments for making this happen, @plotkinworks for mastering and @j_k_hell for designing the LP! Get one while you can on my Bandcamp or the Radical Documents site!

Fast friends ! Twig & Miko 💕

🗻KRAKY’S RIM🗻 Last year I made this video for the song ‘Krakys Rim’ off of the Nowhere Flower - Heat Dome LP out on @digitalregress 🌷It’s sold out but I still have a few LPs - hit me up if you want one!

2 upcoming spring shows 🌷 APRIL 23rd- At Turn Turn Turn with @blurries_music , @communitygardensmusic & @fruited_planes Flier by @j_k_hell MAY 23rd - At Kelly’s Olympian with me & @bobdesaulniers , @lucasgunn12 , @sighenry & @sean___pierce & co. Flier by Bob

An old oil painting from 2023. 18” x 24”

✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ Little Axe Records is having a benefit for Philips Free Store! Thanks to Jed & Carly for organizing!! Bob and I will be playing an acoustic set, @carlying is making homemade wontons & there will be wine. Please come out if you can! All proceeds will be donated to Philips Free Store —a mutual aid group in Minneapolis that provides rent support for residents and families affected by ICE. @phillipsfreestore Flyer by @bobdesaulniers

Nowhere Flower - Ruts the Place Radical Documents, 2025 Super limited vinyl pressing of the first Nowhere Flower record, originally recorded at Lila Jarzombek’s home in 2023 and released as a cassette the following year. You may recall us being head over heels for Heat Dome, the second Nowhere Flower LP that was released last year, and that love and admiration easily extends further back into these first utterances. Though buried beneath a gauze of tape hiss and bedroom klang, do not be mistaken - Jarzombek is an instinctively brilliant writer, with equal knack for both the earworm and the dissonant, and built from both conventional and less frequently heard instrumentation. If Heat Dome had a notably Jim Shepard/Xpressway feel to it, then the songs that make up Ruts the Place appear to be more noticeably tied to the psychedelic shitgaze and chemical imbalances of classic turn of the century Siltbreeze - think Un, Hall of Fame, The Tower Recordings. It’s the kind of singular, autodidactic music making that seems to best persist un-watched, the sound that happens when you leave something alone to work out its own way to bloom. As I said about Heat Dome, Nowhere Flower couldn’t be any more of a perfect name in describing Jarzombek’s vision. Implaccable it might be, but blossom it does. FFO: Un, Hall of Fame, The Tower Recordings, Times New Viking // @radicaldocuments @nowhere__flower

Hindsight 2025: Pt. 6 Nowhere Flower - Heat Dome (Digital Regress) Second album and first time vinyl showing for Nowhere Flower, the solo project from Spatulas member, Lila Jarzombek. While Heat Dome carries over the DIY sensibilities of that parent project, sonically we’re in somewhat different territory, the lope and sway jangle substituted for something a little more chemically altered and third eye orientated. Deploying an array of distinctly home-recorded keyboards, guitars, fiddles, drum machines and strung-out Kim Gordon-by-way-of-Jim Shepard vocals, there’s the sense of an artist falling down the stairs of their own whimsical interests and coming up laughing. Melodies jut out at unusual angles, craggy and unexpected, and songs collapse in and out of themselves, sometimes quite tricky to fully discern in the lo-fi fog, other times, as with the title track, instantly arresting and demanding of repeat plays. The intuitive, first-thought-best-thought feel seems at once both effortless and mystifyingly psychedelic in ways that draw connections with Siltbreeze alumni like Hall of Fame and Un and the current crop of tape-hiss/fogged glass outliers in San Fran (Hospital, Sad Eyed Beatniks++). Since it took some time for the records to arrive with us, I’ve sat with the audio for a while now and I’ve still yet to find the centre of Heat Dome, an LP determinedly situated off-centre and awash with hidden mysteries. You know you’re in the right place when no matter how you try, you still can’t quite fathom the meaning. Nowhere Flower proves a perfect descriptor. // @nowhere__flower @digitalregress