Release Radar: Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys release the final album in the Tapes trilogy 'Teen Tapes (for performing your own stunts)’ today

The final record in Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys’ series of tapes is a love story of 10 songs that are intimate, poetic, beautiful, at moments compellingly carnal and always teeming with the starkest of feelings.

Titled Teen Tapes (for performing your own stunts) and releasing via Unique Records on April 8th, it is the follow up to the band’s previous records, Transit Tapes (for women who move furniture around) and Sleeping Tapes for Some Girls.

Risk was the first song written for Teen Tapes (for performing your own stunts), and describes a moment of undoing. A falling into feeling that would inspire the rest of the songs, full of both pent up energy as well as evocative outpourings. Willfully juvenile. A love story, with all of the joy and terror that love stories must endure.                                            

The video for Risk, created by Cape Town collective Cult Wife, is an animation of a lyric comic illustrated by Nena Maree, a fellow Cape Town artist.  https://youtu.be/q11QIRd8Uec                                

The tapes trilogy, which began in 2019 with the introverted collection of lullabies, Sleeping Tapes for Some Girls, and followed with the equally tender but perhaps more intense Transit Tapes (for women who move furniture around), documents both a literal and metaphorical move away from and towards something. Teen Tapes (for performing your own stunts) is the much needed arrival and release.