“Burning Building” is the second single from Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys’ upcoming album. The song is a chaotic and cathartic doomsday monologue, switching its tone, sound, and subject matter multiple times within its short existence. The opening groove, which feels like a dark cheerleading anthem, is soon subsumed by a doom-like rumble over which Lucy spits a stream of consciousness.
There is a schizophrenic quality to the song, as if it’s been captured within the wrong groove and has to rush to find itself, or to escape, hopefully spilling some moments of truth along the way. The first line in the second verse ‘I’m catwalking out of a Burning Building’ brings up the feeling of masquerading in a situation that would be better suited to running.
With Burning Building, Lucy & The Lost Boys have created a spiky post-punk anthem for the time that is both more playful and more intense than their previous work – a foreteller of what’s to come on the new album, which will be out through Unique Records in April 2023.
The lyric video is a collaboration between the Cape Town film, animation and illustration collective, Cult Wife, and Berlin based artists, Julia Schimautz / DTAN. The lyrics were animated by Cult Wife and set against a visual loop which Julia and DTAN created by riso printing and re- assembling individual frames from a video Franics Broek filmed.
Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys are an art pop ambient noise band based in Berlin. The group, fronted by South African born artist, Lucy Kruger, create music that is full of atmosphere and intensity. The band has been touring the albums throughout Germany and Europe over the last year, performing at the likes of Rheeperbahn, Fusion, Maifeld Derby, Wave-Gotik Treffen, South of Silence, Immergut, Left of The Dial, and Synästhesie.
After releasing the third and final album in the ‘Tapes Trilogy’ in April 2022 and touring the albums extensively through the summer, the band are shifting attention to their upcoming album which will be released on 7 April 2023. The range of material and storytelling captured in the trilogy, and the addition of new material from the upcoming album have given the group a chance to explore a live set that drifts between introverted and ecstatic.
They have announced the upcoming album launch, which will take place at Lido in Berlin on the 5th of May along with a Spring 2023 European Tour.
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Listen to ‘Burning Building’ HERE
Watch the lyrics video HERE
Lyric animation: Cult Wife @cult_wife_
Video: DTAN Studio (Francis Broek/Julia Schimautz) @dtan.studio
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