Release Radar: Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys 'A Strangers Chest'
'A Stranger’s Chest' is the second single from Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys upcoming album 'Transit Tapes (for women who move furniture around)’ and is a reckoning with a need for a kind of validation that in the end leads to containment and quietening. In the song, Lucy has landed in the deep end of the ocean and instead of reaching for an anchor, that is familiar but not as safe as it once seemed, she wants to learn to swim. Or better yet, become the sea.
The full album ‘Transit Tapes (for women who move furniture around)’ will be released on 4 June. As a follow up to 2019’s ‘Sleeping Tapes (for some girls)’ Transit Tapes similarly mines and documents deeply personal themes – this time Kruger’s desire to no longer have to keep things neat and contained, and a seeking of space and outward movement. “The songs begin in the bedroom, as with Sleeping Tapes, but with an eye on the window and a hand on the door. There is a restlessness. A kind of building up of courage and the acknowledgement of a fear I had developed around making too much noise or causing too much of a scene.”
It features the new Lost Boys - Martin Perret, Andreas Miranda and Liú Mottes.
The single is paired with a beautifully emotive music video illustrated by Berlin Based Alina Garti. Watch it here on youtube or below.
