Lucy Dacus by Marin Leong
It features on Lucy Dacus’ 2021 album Home Video.
Lucy Dacus was the musical guest of Jimmy Fallon last night, performing VBS on The Tonight Show.
VBS wears the themes of Home Video firmly on its sleeve, on which there’s ‘more than one foot in the past’ throughout a record which looks at her, ‘history raised within the web of Christian education that in largely secular Europe seems almost unthinkably antiquated’, as our 8/10 album review notes.
“Understandably, with the ample gifts now of separation and perspective, this upbringing provides a rich seam of plunderable experiences, particularly on VBS, an acronym of Vacation Bible School.”
“Here she reveals that even then little doubts were setting in – ‘It was the summer of ‘07/I was sure I’d go to heaven/But I was hedging my bets’ – whilst in camp she found that a first boyfriend’s, ‘Poetry was so bad/I took a lot to not laugh’.”