Containing the best elements of Rock, vintage Americana and electronic cut and paste sonic pastiches, "i need you.", finds songwriter D. Ahearn continuing to explore the borders of country, pop and electronic music. Forging forward from the lo-fi junkyard electronics of ill lit’s debut WACMusic, i need you. takes musical detours in every direction.

Combining infectious keyboard riffs, 808 beats and a lachrymose acoustic finger picking style, ill lit tap into an edgy, dark layer of earth just beneath the freeways of an urban, beat-driven Los Angeles.

Joined by a diverse cast of musicians from the LA, San Francisco and Brooklyn music scenes, ill lit construct harrowing, pop songs with concern for sound rather than style. Full of beauty, obsession and regret, i need you.. is above all a meditation on Los Angeles, a place of wonder, dread, love, death, and finally hope.

"ill lit gives us songs that are elegies of American lostness, road music for a new breed of pioneers. Any person who is no longer young, and not yet old: rootless human beings of scattered family, no land, and only a home away from no-home. Who are nonetheless burdened with lustful urges to build something, somewhere; to say something, to someone: to call out of the ruins of all this glorious fucked-up American freedom we own." -Sound Collector

i need you. was co-produced by Dylan Magierek (Mark Kozelek, Erlend Oye, Call and Response), Michael Rozon and ill lit in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

ill lit played Noise Pop 2003, headlined Badman's 2003 CMJ showcase and have shared stages with Josh Rouse, Young People, Clem Snide, and Lou Barlow.