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Period Piece (Egghunt Records)
Add date: 10.13.2026
Release date: 10.9.2026
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Chicago based singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist V.V. Lightbody returns with Period Piece, out on October 9th, 2026 with Egghunt Records. A sought-after collaborator in Chicago’s indie music scene for over a decade, Lightbody’s third LP is a marvelous showcase of her singular production and arrangement skills, ear-catching melodies, and signature frank lyricism. Period Piece presents a deeply relatable audit of Lightbody’s own anxieties, imperfections, and charming peculiarities as she falls in love, ages, dabbles in divination, and re-evaluates her place in the world. Here, we find Lightbody confronting her own defensiveness and dissatisfaction, while simultaneously attempting to loosen, notice beauty and pleasure, and relinquish herself from what she learns she cannot control. This is who I am. This is who I love. This is what is possible.
Notably, Period Piece also marks Lightbody’s debut as a lead producer on her own album – a dazzling and welcome emergence. With layers of perfectly tucked backing vocals, swirling guitars in harmony, chugging bass lines, and romantic, melodic flutes, Lightbody has crafted a playful and pristinely recorded collection of indie-folk songs, veering between 70s Brazilian samba and contemporary electro-pop. Think, Cate Le Bon strolling through an overgrown meadow. Dave Vettraino provided additional production and mixing support, and Lightbody called in a robust team of friends to contribute throughout, including Macie Stewart, Sam Cantor, Emma Hospelhorn, Jack Henry Lickerman, and Cassandra Jenkins.
Following the release of 2020’s critically acclaimed Make A Shrine Or Burn It (Acrophase Records), Lightbody spent much of the next 4 years touring and collaborating with friends such as Finom, producing records as “Album Doula”, and recording an LP with Valebol, her synth-pop duo started with Daniel Villarreal-Carrillo. It was also an important period for personal reflection, and thus Period Piece began to take shape.
Album opener “Practice Smiling” sets the tone for Period Piece’s playful slice of life, walking listeners through the awkward negotiation and re-familiarization of social spaces that many of us found ourselves in following 2020’s Covid lock-down – the timid and forced confidence, the over-thinking, the doubt. “Should I rehearse laughing?” Lightbody asks, not convinced of her own ability to act natural. “Does it sound like I’m acting?” She swerves in and out of reassurance as insecurity is replaced with certainty and reversed back again. “Dull Knife” feels like a gentle pat on her own back, an urge to slow down, ease up, unclench…though always with a question and a cautious reach toward trust. “Are you feeling alright?” she asks herself. “Hanging on tight?”
About album standout “Two Swans”, Lightbody recalls a period of time when she felt like she was seeing two swans everywhere she went – a “sign” to be paid attention to if there ever was one. Yet through the song, she finds a way to make playful fun of that sort of wiley quest for meaning, pointing a cheeky finger at those around her, and also herself. “I’m on the edge of pissin’ her off ‘cause I don’t know the time I was born” she sings, a whiff of desperation ringing out. One has to laugh! A breath of humor swells throughout Period Piece as Lightbody reminds herself (and us) what is and is not meant to be taken seriously. On “Robocaller”, which features ethereal background vocals from Cassandra Jenkins, Lightbody narrates a make-believe story of getting so many spam phone calls from a robocaller she eventually falls in love with them, waiting eagerly for their call.
It’s this deft jaunt between irony and earnestness that not only underscores Lightbody’s ability to captivate and surprise, but also makes her moments of emotional clarity all the more show-stopping. The album is rounded out with “Patient Like A Pilot”, a metaphorical, ambling invitation for patience and gentle healing, and “Blue Within Blue”, a modestly adorned and uncannily touching love song. It is so often Lightbody’s love songs (including those about heartbreak) that bring forth the most hypnotizing wonders from her bag of songwriting tricks. It’s here her simple truths ring out and rocket straight to the heart, as if she’s the first to say it – the first to understand love, the first to stumble through one’s own fear. “What the heck?” she sings on “Blue Within Blue”, as if with a shrug. “The concrete gets wet sometimes.” This is what she’s learned, and offers to us at the end of this winding hike toward clarity. We’ve gotta take the risk with the want, don’t we? The hurt with the thrill. A head first dive into what feels right for us and a sheepish smile in the splash; a quiet laugh at the bruises we’ve collected along the way.
Apple Music
Bandcamp
Egghunt Records
Official Website
Spotify
Tidal
YouTube
Chicago based singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist V.V. Lightbody returns with Period Piece, out on October 9th, 2026 with Egghunt Records. A sought-after collaborator in Chicago’s indie music scene for over a decade, Lightbody’s third LP is a marvelous showcase of her singular production and arrangement skills, ear-catching melodies, and signature frank lyricism. Period Piece presents a deeply relatable audit of Lightbody’s own anxieties, imperfections, and charming peculiarities as she falls in love, ages, dabbles in divination, and re-evaluates her place in the world. Here, we find Lightbody confronting her own defensiveness and dissatisfaction, while simultaneously attempting to loosen, notice beauty and pleasure, and relinquish herself from what she learns she cannot control. This is who I am. This is who I love. This is what is possible.
Notably, Period Piece also marks Lightbody’s debut as a lead producer on her own album – a dazzling and welcome emergence. With layers of perfectly tucked backing vocals, swirling guitars in harmony, chugging bass lines, and romantic, melodic flutes, Lightbody has crafted a playful and pristinely recorded collection of indie-folk songs, veering between 70s Brazilian samba and contemporary electro-pop. Think, Cate Le Bon strolling through an overgrown meadow. Dave Vettraino provided additional production and mixing support, and Lightbody called in a robust team of friends to contribute throughout, including Macie Stewart, Sam Cantor, Emma Hospelhorn, Jack Henry Lickerman, and Cassandra Jenkins.
Following the release of 2020’s critically acclaimed Make A Shrine Or Burn It (Acrophase Records), Lightbody spent much of the next 4 years touring and collaborating with friends such as Finom, producing records as “Album Doula”, and recording an LP with Valebol, her synth-pop duo started with Daniel Villarreal-Carrillo. It was also an important period for personal reflection, and thus Period Piece began to take shape.
Album opener “Practice Smiling” sets the tone for Period Piece’s playful slice of life, walking listeners through the awkward negotiation and re-familiarization of social spaces that many of us found ourselves in following 2020’s Covid lock-down – the timid and forced confidence, the over-thinking, the doubt. “Should I rehearse laughing?” Lightbody asks, not convinced of her own ability to act natural. “Does it sound like I’m acting?” She swerves in and out of reassurance as insecurity is replaced with certainty and reversed back again. “Dull Knife” feels like a gentle pat on her own back, an urge to slow down, ease up, unclench…though always with a question and a cautious reach toward trust. “Are you feeling alright?” she asks herself. “Hanging on tight?”
About album standout “Two Swans”, Lightbody recalls a period of time when she felt like she was seeing two swans everywhere she went – a “sign” to be paid attention to if there ever was one. Yet through the song, she finds a way to make playful fun of that sort of wiley quest for meaning, pointing a cheeky finger at those around her, and also herself. “I’m on the edge of pissin’ her off ‘cause I don’t know the time I was born” she sings, a whiff of desperation ringing out. One has to laugh! A breath of humor swells throughout Period Piece as Lightbody reminds herself (and us) what is and is not meant to be taken seriously. On “Robocaller”, which features ethereal background vocals from Cassandra Jenkins, Lightbody narrates a make-believe story of getting so many spam phone calls from a robocaller she eventually falls in love with them, waiting eagerly for their call.
It’s this deft jaunt between irony and earnestness that not only underscores Lightbody’s ability to captivate and surprise, but also makes her moments of emotional clarity all the more show-stopping. The album is rounded out with “Patient Like A Pilot”, a metaphorical, ambling invitation for patience and gentle healing, and “Blue Within Blue”, a modestly adorned and uncannily touching love song. It is so often Lightbody’s love songs (including those about heartbreak) that bring forth the most hypnotizing wonders from her bag of songwriting tricks. It’s here her simple truths ring out and rocket straight to the heart, as if she’s the first to say it – the first to understand love, the first to stumble through one’s own fear. “What the heck?” she sings on “Blue Within Blue”, as if with a shrug. “The concrete gets wet sometimes.” This is what she’s learned, and offers to us at the end of this winding hike toward clarity. We’ve gotta take the risk with the want, don’t we? The hurt with the thrill. A head first dive into what feels right for us and a sheepish smile in the splash; a quiet laugh at the bruises we’ve collected along the way.