Muir, initially an active part of the musical theatre, youth orchestra and choir community growing up in Kingston, Ontario, began performing in 1998 as alter ego "Lederhosen Lucil."
[2] Tales was recorded/mixed in June, 2003 in only 10 days in Brooklyn, NY by engineer-producer Terence Bernardo in anticipation of the 70-performance tour LL was invited to by friend and former roommate Eric San (DJ Kid Koala).
She worked with one of her favourite filmmakers Kara Blake on the Semi-Sweet video (for which Kid Koala did a remix) In 2005, while on a 4-month tour as Lederhosen Lucil in Europe, Muir began writing songs on a tiny, cheap soprano ukulele.
This is the first album Muir engineered, mixed, produced and did the artwork for, featuring more original material and accompanying her singing and with several vintage keyboards, soprano-tenor-baritone ukulele, violin, omnichord, and percussion.
[5][6] Muir's genre-bending 2013 album, Guten Tag Gemini,[7] includes post punk pop folk rock garage and dance songs performed under her own name and alter-ego Lederhosen Lucil.
[12] Living with unpredictable chronic illness endometriosis greatly limited her touring abilities but Muir wrote, self-engineered, and released The Tides in 2018,[13] stating that it was the album that "saved my life.