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Lia Ices Is The Stage Name Of Lia Kessel A Singer-Songwriter From Westport Connecticut Currently Living In The Hudson Valley New York. While She Has Been Performing And Recording For Several Years Ices Gained Prominence When Her Song "Love Is Won" From Her Second Studio Album Grown Unknown Was Played Over The Closing Credits Of The Second-To-Last Episode Of Season One Of HBO's Girls On June 10 2012. In 2005 She Began Performing Publicly Under Her Birth Name Of Lia Kessel Performing At Small Venues In New York. Kessel Did Press An EP Of Songs Independently But These Songs Were Never Distributed Commercially. During This Time She Worked With Two Backing Bands The Marina And Wild Cries. In Late 2007 She Participated In The Third Studio Album By American Singer-Songwriter Baby Dee Called Safe Inside The Day Singing Vocals On Three Tracks. In 2008 She Adopted The Name Lia Ices And Her First Full-Length Album Necima Was Released In September Of That Year Produced By Nicolas Vernhes At Rare Book Room Studios In Brooklyn NY. The Music Webzine Pitchfork Wrote Of The Album "When Ices And Vernhes Find A Creative Symbiosis Usually On The Record's Shorter Pop-Leaning Tracks The Results Are Spectacular." Critics Compared Her Singing Favorably To That Of Kate Bush And More Contemporary Artists Like Feist And Bat For Lashes As Well As Tori Amos And Cat Power. In Early 2011 Ices Released Her Sophomore Album Grown Unknown Which Was Again Mixed At The Rare Book Room Studios In Brooklyn But Released Through Her New Label Jagjaguwar Records. She Spent Six Months In Vermont Writing Most Of The Album And Recorded The Album At The The Clubhouse In Rhinebeck NY. The Album's Second Track "Daphne" Features A Duet With Bon Iver Frontman Justin Vernon. Critics Found Her Voice More Relaxed Than On Her Debut Album. On April 3 2012 Jagjaguwar Records Released A 7" Single Of Ices Covering Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here " Taken From Mojo Magazine's Pink Floyd October 2011 Special Edition The B Side Was Another Cover Of Syd Barret's Late Night. Albums Necima - Released September 9 2008
Grown Unknown - Released January 24 2011 read less