Lucy Dacus by Marin Leong
It’s five years since Lucy Dacus’ ‘Historian’ album.
Lucy Dacus is marking the anniversary of her second studio record with a long-awaited video for its fan-favourite track Night Shift.
Historian was followed up in 2021 with Home Video – a Live4ever album of the year which we summed up as a record, ‘that makes a virtue of satisfying a listener’s curiosity and making it their new best friend‘:
“Faith and its relationship with the individual is often posited as some kind of test, but Dacus now identifies as beyond definitions easy for a two-thousand-year-old belief system to qualify.”
The distance this gradual change has brought about is a central theme of Home Video, opener Hot & Heavy about the degrees of separation we create for ourselves as a bulwark against the awkwardness of adolescence, summed up via the biographical, ‘You used to be so sweet/Now you’re a firecracker on a crowded street’.
“Elsewhere, on the gorgeous piano-led ballad Christine friends return from church (‘We’re coming home/From a sermon saying how bent on evil we are’) whilst the singer fights the temptation to tell a friend she’s taking a route towards a lesser future.”
