Lucy Dacus

This new gift from Dacus, 'Home Video,' her third album, was built on an interrogation of her coming-of-age years in Richmond, Virginia. Many songs start the way a memoir might—“In the summer of ’07 I was sure I’d go to heaven, but I was hedging my bets at VBS”—and all of them have the compassion, humor, and honesty of the best autobi-ographical writing. Most importantly and mysteriously, this album displays Dacus’s ability to use the personal as portal into the universal. “I can’t hide behind generalizations or fiction anymore,” Dacus says, though talking about these songs, she admits, makes her ache. While there’s a nostalgic tint to much of Dacus’s work, the obliquely told stories in past songs are depicted here with greater specificity. "Triple Dog Dare" recounts young, queer love complicated and forbidden by religion. The toxic relationship depicted in "Partner in Crime" is filled with pining, deceit, and meeting curfew. (“My heart’s on my sleeve/ it’s embarrassing/ the pulpy thing, beating.”) "Christine" is an elegiac ballad about a close friend vanishing into an inhibiting relationship.

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FULL DISCOGRAPHY

TitleFormatRelease DateStore
"Kissing Lessons" b/w "Thumbs Again" 7" 06/03/22 BUY
Home Video LP/CD/DA 06/25/21 BUY
2019 EP/DA 11/08/19 BUY
Historian LP/CD/DA 03/02/18 BUY
No Burden LP/CD/DA 09/06/16 BUY
Album Trailer / I Don’t Wanna Be Funny Anymore DV 06/20/16

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