November 4, 2021 – Los Angeles, CA -- It's been a challenging year for all of us but, especially singer, songwriter Tod Lippy. Over the past twelve months, he lost several people close to him, including his mother. And in July, he was hit by a car while walking across a street in NYC. In the aftermath, he found himself reflecting on his own mortality and decided to create a song that reflected the fragility of existence and, by extension, the anger and fear it provoked. Lippy incorporated feedback-heavy guitar work to create a more aggressive and visceral vibe than that of his earlier songs and pulled in drummer Jeff Lipstein (Clem Snide) and cellist SerafimSmigelskiy (Tesla Quartet) to complete the song that would ultimately be titled "LIFE."

Lippy was a primarily digital one-man band for his first two albums, playing all instruments - most of them Midi-based - in a makeshift recording studio in his home. But for LIFE, he took a different approach to writing and recording - enlisting Lipstein and Smigelskiy to add their tracks to his analog guitar, piano, and vocal tracks in their respective studios. Lippy would later join Lipstein for two mixing sessions in his Woodstock studio. The final results were sent to Mastering Engineer Fred Kevorkian (The National, Iggy Pop, Phish), who prepared the song for release.