Release Radar: Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys release second single ‘Burning Building’ off forthcoming album

“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.