How Lily Seabird found her folk rock heart on Trash Mountain

thefader.com:

It’s mid-afternoon in Burlington, Vermont and singer-songwriter Lily Seabird is giving me an MTV Cribs-style tour of her home via Zoom.

Dubbed “Trash Mountain” by tenants long before the singer-songwriter and her friends moved in, it’s a pink house on a decommissioned landfill site that Seabird makes sound romantic and grimy in equal measure.

The pink and yellow slats on the outside lead to a ramshackle interior filled with wooden ladders and doors that need to be taped shut at night.

The property houses seven other people and has blossomed into a community hub, hosting neighbourhood clean-ups, pot-luck dinners from produce grown in a nearby garden, and gigs from local and touring musicians. “You write ‘Trash Mountain’ on a flyer and people know where to find you,” Seabird says proudly.