The Lillypillies and the Art of the Time Trilogy on Teleport Back
The Lillypillies and the Art of the Time Trilogy on Teleport Back
The Sydney Duo’s Third Album Completes a Trilogy Running From Future to Past
The Lillypillies, an alt-pop rock duo from Sydney, spell out the plan in their album titles. Their 2022 debut was Run to the Future, and the 2023 follow-up was Songs From the Present Day. Now Teleport Back, a ten-track album released on 1 July 2025, closes the set by turning round.
The Lillypillies have music in the playlist below, filed with this desk’s electronic pop and indie electronic picks, with the duo’s wider press archive on the profile of The Lillypillies. Teleport Back reached AltPop.News through PopHits.Co Music Charts, which verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news titles. Press play on the album, then read on for how the trilogy fits together.
The Lillypillies Built a Trilogy From Run to the Future to Songs From the Present Day
At the centre of the project is Manny Attanasio, who writes the words and music, sings, produces and plays keyboards. Alessandro Gori plays the guitars. The album credit keeps it simple: The Lillypillies wrote, produced and performed it. When Plastic Magazine introduced them in May 2022, it heard gritty guitar work set against analogue synthesiser arrangements. It also noted colourful instrumentation under dark melodic lines.
That debut, Run to the Future, arrived in April 2022 with twelve tracks. Plastic Magazine named three themes in it. They were the struggles of the present day, the nostalgia of the past and hope for a better future. In hindsight, that sentence reads like a plan for everything that followed.
Next, Songs From the Present Day came in August 2023. Reviewing it, Tune Oasis heard indie rock with electronic touches and keyboards that shine as much as the guitars. It also heard a sound that recalled the 2000s.
The presentation has its own habits, too. Song titles shout single words in capitals, as in Loner & a MISFIT and Don’t Leave Me BROKEN. Meanwhile, the band shares its name with an Australian native tree, the lilly pilly. It is a small, homespun identity, and it suits a project that writes, produces and performs everything itself.
Teleport Back Turns the Trilogy Around After More Than a Year of Singles Ahead of the Album
Teleport Back changed the delivery. Instead of arriving all at once, it came out in pieces. First came Summertime in March 2024, then All Around the World in May and Save Me in July. After that, It’s Never Too Late followed in September. In 2025, Loner & a MISFIT arrived in January and Don’t Leave Me BROKEN in March, and the title track came in late June. Finally, the full album landed on 1 July 2025. By then, most of its songs were already familiar to anyone following along.
The title completes the arc. The debut ran towards the future, and the second record was about the present. So Teleport Back looks the other way, towards the past. That is exactly where Plastic Magazine’s 2022 summary pointed. Meanwhile, the band’s own tags for it read alternative, electronic, indie pop, indie rock and pop rock. Across ten songs, it runs to just under 37 minutes.
The Through-Line of the Trilogy, and Where the Duo Went After Teleport Back
The through-line is a songwriter taking the long view. The words and music are Attanasio’s. Together, the three titles read as one idea about time. They cover where you are going, where you are and what you carry from before.
Since the album, the band has kept releasing. First, it gave the album’s opening track, Nothing’s Forever, its own single release in September 2025. Then, in February 2026, a single titled Don’t Let Me Down 26 returned to a song from the debut. Never Surrender followed in April 2026. Only days later came Time Capsule 21-26, a 15-track collection whose title marks the years 2021 to 2026.
Where The Lillypillies Sit Next to The Killers and Keane, and Where to Hear Them
For reference points, think of the mid-2000s moment when keyboards and guitars shared the front line. For instance, The Killers built Hot Fuss in 2004 on new wave and post-punk influences, with synths and guitars side by side. That same year, Keane topped the UK albums chart with Hopes and Fears. Keyboards, not guitars, drove that record. The Lillypillies sit closer to that sound than to modern bedroom pop. That also fits the 2000s feel Tune Oasis heard in their previous album.
It suits listeners who like alt-pop with a rock backbone and an electronic edge. Likewise, it suits anyone who enjoys an album that makes more sense next to its siblings. Start with the title track, then go back to Run to the Future and hear the trilogy in order.
From the Curator Team: “Teleport Back is the rare third album that explains the first two. Put the three titles side by side and the plan is obvious. The keyboard-and-guitar identity from the debut also carries right through to the final chapter.”
Stream Teleport Back on Spotify. The band is also on Apple Music, Deezer, SoundCloud and Bandcamp, home of the 2026 single Never Surrender. Watch them on their YouTube channel and follow them on Instagram, TikTok and Facebook. Their Linktree gathers everything in one place.
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