Fenne Lily returns to the Triangle with a new album, Win Win

Nearly four years after her last stop at Motorco, the songwriter brings her fourth album to Kings in Raleigh on Sunday, March 7, with Sluice opening.

The last time Fenne Lily came through the Triangle, she was touring *Big Picture*. That was June 5, 2023, at Motorco Music Hall. Since then she has changed labels, made a new record and released it only a couple of weeks ago — and now she is coming back to play it in one of the smaller rooms in the area.

Fenne Lily plays Kings in Raleigh on Sunday, March 7, 2027, at 8pm, with Sluice opening. The show was announced on October 21, and tickets are on sale through VenuePilot. Kings holds about 250 people, which for a songwriter whose records live on quiet details is about the right size.

The new album is *Win Win*, her fourth, released on October 23 through Nettwerk Music Group, per Alternative Press. It is her first album on Nettwerk and her first since 2023's *Big Picture*. Her two previous records, *BREACH* and *Big Picture*, came out on Dead Oceans, as BrooklynVegan and DIY reported at the time.

*Win Win* was introduced with the lead single "Uh Huh," which Stereogum premiered alongside the album announcement. Lily told Atwood Magazine that the song is about saying yes to love even when it hurts, and the piece carries her line that "the music is the softest part of me." In August, she followed it with "Sleeping," which Stereogum covered as the next look at the record.

"The music is the softest part of me."

So what has changed since Motorco? A new label, a new album and, on paper, a smaller room. That last part is worth something. The *Big Picture* run in 2023 included a co-headlining tour with Christian Lee Hutson, per BrooklynVegan, and this time she is headlining on her own, with a full new set of songs to work through, in a room where the people in the back can still hear the guitar strings.

It is also a Sunday, which tends to suit this kind of show. An 8pm start leaves time for dinner beforehand and still gets most people home at a reasonable hour before the work week. With only about 250 tickets, it is not one to leave until the last weekend in February.

Most of the Triangle has not heard these songs live yet. Neither, really, has anyone else. In March, Kings gets to be one of the first rooms to find out how they sound.

Sources: Fenne Lily announces new album Win Win — Alternative Press (altpress.com); Fenne Lily announces new album Win Win, hear “Uh Huh” — Stereogum (stereogum.com); Fenne Lily — “Sleeping” — Stereogum (stereogum.com); “The Music Is the Softest Part of Me”: Fenne Lily on Saying “Uh Huh” — Atwood Magazine (atwoodmagazine.com); Fenne Lily preps BREACH LP for Dead Oceans — BrooklynVegan (brooklynvegan.com); Fenne Lily album Big Picture — DIY (diymag.com); Fenne Lily announces new LP, co-headlining tour with Christian Lee Hutson — BrooklynVegan (brooklynvegan.com); Fenne Lily at Kings — VenuePilot (tickets.venuepilot.com); Fenne Lily at Kings — JamBase (jambase.com)