Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys have released ‘The Whale Song’, the 2nd single from their upcoming album A Human Home.
Inspired by a friend’s prompt, Lucy Kruger crafts a song about a self-kidnapping whale, drawing from intimate voice note exchanges. They reflect on the depth of the human voice and its autobiographical nature.
A guitar line with a strong tremolo effect that drifts and drags over the driving drum beat gives the song a feeling of something stirring or shifting, as in a spell.
An intimate and strange spoken affirmation, ‘I love the chunk in your chest,’ opens the song and repeats at the beginning of each line. The singer finishes the sentences in a hushed but urgent manner. A captivating call and response spills into the chorus and softens into a tender melodic moment.
More info about Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys‘ New Album
A Human Home was written during lockdown in Lucy’s room in Berlin. It is a low-fi, intimate, and expressive collection of musical sketches that explore what it means to find and feel at home.
Featuring a number of accidental and deliberate remote collaborations, it documents a specific, personal, and universally shared moment in time.
A Human Home was mixed by Simon Ratcliffe at Sound & Motion Studios and mastered by Tim Lengfeld at TL Mastering. The album artwork was created by Julia Schimautz at Don’t Try Anything New, with photography by Francis Broek and styling by Lenny-Dee Doucha.
The full album will be available in May through Unique Records in Europe and Metropolis in the USA.
You can stream / download “The Whale Song” HERE.
In case you did not know, Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys is an art-pop, tender noise band based in Berlin. The group, fronted by South African-born artist Lucy Kruger, creates music full of atmosphere and intensity.
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