Avant-pop siren Alex Lilly has always colored outside the lines, whether in her earliest incarnations as Obi Best, Touché or in the madcap Buddhist punk band Zero DeZire, who opened up for Peaches.

And she does know where the lines are — her other exploits have included her role as the “fourth sister” in the harmonic quartet the Living Sisters, and touring gigs with the Lorde, Beck, and the bird and the bee.