In July, 2008, I stood in a crowded, small, sweaty, loud room in downtown Phoenix. Tilly and the Wall was about to play, and the smell of B.O. was already heavy in the air. But a girl in a tutu jumped up onto an amplified acoustic platform and started tapping out a mesmerizing rhythm, which garnered unified clapping from the crowd, all with excited faces. Nobody stopped sweating, because nobody stopped dancing from that moment on. The music was amazing and the energy was electric. The most apparent thing I took from their live show was that they love company, and they love having friends. Their performance seemed to be fueled by nothing else other than the crowd's involvement. They had just released an album at that time, called O, which was the follow-up to their sophomore album, Bottoms of Barrels. Their albums have this great way of riding self-created momentum, musically. Here's what I consider to be the pinnacle of Bottoms of Barrels, the first album of theirs that saw a substantial deal of commercial success. To me, it best "demonstrates the importance of Tilly’s 'we' perspective – with a gang full of voices, the band made strong declarations about love, freedom and their own place in the world" (Tilly biography)
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