Lucy Dacus - Home Video (June 25, 2021) Album • Page 5

trevorshmevor · Mar 9, 2021

I’d heard of the track but I’m not really one for concert footage for a first listen of new songs. And I haven’t seen her live since the week Historian came out haha

Pretty song though. Maybe I’m wrong, but this strikes me as more of a lil hype builder for the Lucy heads before she drops a more traditional single with an album announcement and video

Matt Chylak · Mar 9, 2021

Nice song! Haven’t taken the lyrics in deeply yet.

Feels like she took some sonic cues from Phoebe’s last record, excited for her to get loud again.

radiodead · Mar 9, 2021

Matt Chylak said:

Nice song! Haven’t taken the lyrics in deeply yet.

Feels like she took some sonic cues from Phoebe’s last record, excited for her to get loud again.

I think the lyrics are the strong point here.

BigMouth · Mar 9, 2021

Surprised by how somber this track was but the lyrics and melodies were fantastic. I agree, this sounds like a hype track before a proper single, but I'm on board.

Matt Chylak · Mar 9, 2021

Matt Chylak said:

Nice song! Haven’t taken the lyrics in deeply yet.

Feels like she took some sonic cues from Phoebe’s last record, excited for her to get loud again.

radiodead said:

I think the lyrics are the strong point here.

Yep! I finally got a chance to walk around solo and put it on without distractions. Gutting and genius storytelling.

Drew Beringer · Mar 9, 2021

ItsAndrew · Mar 9, 2021

Y'all should listen to Angie McMahon's debut album "Salt" from 2019. It's VERY MUCH Lucy inspired, (they sound very similar) and it's great.

"Pasta" has some intense Lucy vibes going on and it's awesome

oncenowagain · Mar 9, 2021

Happy thumbs day y’all

Mary V · Mar 10, 2021

Not crazy about Thumbs tbh, still very eager for new music from Lucy, though!

ItsAndrew · Apr 5, 2021

Oh my god

BigMouth · Apr 5, 2021

That was perfect

Matt Chylak · Apr 5, 2021

meh, Phoebe is her best impression. her new song from last month is good though!

ItsAndrew · Apr 12, 2021

Stuff is happening soon, this seems like a promo pic

ItsAndrew · Apr 12, 2021

Also tour with Bachelor (Jay Som + Palehound’s new band) happening in September. A Dallas date just got announced.

https://fb.me/e/1oXnOYgzE

bradpetrik · Apr 12, 2021

ItsAndrew said:

Also tour with Bachelor (Jay Som + Palehound’s new band) happening in September. A Dallas date just got announced.

https://fb.me/e/1oXnOYgzE

September is going to simultaneously be awesome and suuuuuuuck.

ItsAndrew · Apr 12, 2021

NEW ALBUM IS CALLED HOME VIDEO

ItsAndrew · Apr 12, 2021

Press release:

There are a thousand truisms about home and childhood, none of them true but all of them honest. It’s natural to want to tidy those earliest memories into a story so palatable and simple that you never have to read again. A home video promises to give your memories back with a certificate of fact— but the footage isn’t the feeling. Who is just out of frame? What does the soft focus obscure? How did the recording itself change the scene?

Some scrutinize the past and some never look back and Lucy Dacus, a lifelong writer and close reader, has long been the former sort. “The past doesn’t change,” Dacus said on a video call during that interminable winter of video calls. “Even if a memory is of a time I didn’t feel safe, there’s safety in looking at it, in its stability.”

This new gift from Dacus, Home Video, her third album, was built on an interrogation of her coming-of-age years in Richmond, Virginia. Many songs start the way a memoir might—“In the summer of ’07 I was sure I’d go to heaven, but I was hedging my bets at VBS”—and all of them have the compassion, humor, and honesty of the best autobiographical writing. Most importantly and mysteriously, this album displays Dacus’s ability to use the personal as portal into the universal. “I can’t hide behind generalizations or fiction anymore,” Dacus says, though talking about these songs, she admits, makes her ache.

While there’s a nostalgic tint to much of Dacus’s work, the obliquely told stories in past songs are depicted here with greater specificity. Triple Dog Dare recounts young, queer love complicated and forbidden by religion. The toxic relationship depicted in Partner in Crime is filled with pining, deceit, and meeting curfew. (“My heart’s on my sleeve/ it’s embarrassing/ the pulpy thing, beating.”) Christine is an elegiac ballad about a close friend vanishing into an inhibiting relationship.

As is often the case with Dacus, these songs are a study in contrast. In Hot & Heavy, she sings powerfully about blushing and diffidence, while the song Thumbs contains an elegant fantasy about the brutal murder of a close friend’s no-good father. After performing Thumbs during the nearly nonstop tours for her first two albums, it quickly became a white whale to Dacus fans, who have been counting the days until its release just as we’ve all awaited the end of this endless quarantine.

While all that touring made Lucy long to re-root in her hometown, her sudden acclaim filled Richmond with funhouse distortions of herself. People she didn’t know were looking at her like they knew her better than she knew herself. Strangers showed up at her front door. “You used to be so sweet,” she sings on the opening track, “now you're a firecracker on a crowded street.” That truism, both true and false—you can’t go home again—seemed to taunt her at the very time she needed home the most.

In August 2019, after too much touring then a month of silence, it was time to go back to Trace Horse Studio in Nashville—Jacob Blizard, Collin Pastore, and Jake Finch, her loyal friends and collaborators were at her side again. Dacus’s boygenius bandmates, Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker sang a loving chorus on Please Stay and Going Going Gone while each recorded solo songs during the same session. Dacus’s resulting record—full of arrhythmic heartbeat percussion and backgrounds of water-warped pipe organ— was mixed by Shawn Everett and mastered by Bob Ludwig.

Loyal Dacus listeners may notice that the melodies here are lower and more contained, at times feeling as intimate as a whisper. The vulnerability of these songs, so often about the intense places where different sorts of love meet and warp, required this approach. “When you told me ‘bout your first time, a soccer player at the senior high,” she sings in Cartwheel, “I felt my body crumple to the floor. Betrayal like I’d never felt before.” Yet in Partner in Crime, Dacus marries content and form in a strikingly different way, using uncharacteristic Autotune in a song about duplicity and soft coercion.

That Home Video arrives at the end of this locked down, fearful era seems as preordained as the messages within. “I don’t necessarily think that I’m supposed to understand the songs just because I made them,” Dacus says into a screen, “I feel like there’s this person who has been in me my whole life and I’m doing my best to represent them.” After more than a year of being homebound, in a time when screens and video calls were sometimes our only form of contact, looking backward was a natural habit for many. If we haven’t learned it already, this album is a gorgeous example of the transformative power of vulnerability. Dacus’s voice, both audible and on the page, has a healer’s power to soothe and ground and reckon.

ImAMetaphor · Apr 12, 2021

ItsAndrew said:

NEW ALBUM IS CALLED HOME VIDEO

Prove it

ItsAndrew · Apr 12, 2021

"Dacus’s boygenius bandmates, Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker sang a loving chorus on Please Stay and Going Going Gone while each recorded solo songs during the same session."

Oh fuuuuuuck

ImAMetaphor · Apr 12, 2021

So this is going to annihilate me

wisdomfordebris · Apr 12, 2021

NOW. I WANT IT NOW.

Mary V · Apr 12, 2021

This album will destroy me

Mary V · Apr 12, 2021

Where’d the press release come from? I haven’t received any emails yet

ItsAndrew · Apr 12, 2021

Mary V said:

Where’d the press release come from? I haven’t received any emails yet

At the bottom here: https://www.axs.com/events/400595/lucy-dacus-tickets

Someone goofed and posted that early

Mary V · Apr 12, 2021

ItsAndrew said:

At the bottom here: https://www.axs.com/events/400595/lucy-dacus-tickets

Someone goofed and posted that early

Thank you!

Ha, yeah, happy to read it though!

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