Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys excel in navigating the spaces between soundscapes, now exploring the nuances of noise and silence with their new single “Reaching.”
Listen: “Reaching” – Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys
There’s an oppressive feeling in silence that doesn’t quite fit in my body.
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After nearly a year since their previous release, A Human Home, Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys have made their comeback with the single “Reaching.”
Frequencies oscillate from left to right while drums beat consistently in rhythm as a voice softly expresses an inaudible apology, leaving the final words hanging, "...I’m not gonna hold onto it." A voice emerges through the murmurs in a near-spoken tone:
A thread the phone a bullet a bomb
The signals gone
The signals gone
A thread the phone a bullet a bomb
The signals gone
The signals gone
Quiet
Quiet
Reaching – Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys
A feeling of introspection characterizes the Berlin-based group's work, and “Reaching” is no different. Lucy Kruger, the band's frontwoman, possesses an almost hushed intensity that runs deep within her. This intensity surfaces through her reflective songwriting, vocal delivery, and nuanced sonic details.
“I find both intrigue and fear in the tenuous boundary between what we often label as good and evil, tamed and wild, love and hate,” Kruger states.
Who defines those indistinct boundaries? Often, they are one in the same. The South African-born musician's lyrics resonate with sentiments that seem perpetually elusive. Regardless of how many times those words are penned or repeated to an infinite array of our reflections, it never feels sufficient… or entirely accurate.
A C a chord a vacuum a score
I’m digging a song
For words to belong
That fell too short
And stayed for too long
That feel all wrong
That have gone
Quiet
Quiet
Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys © Holger Nitschke
Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys © Holger Nitschke
“There’s a kind of suffocation in silencing that doesn’t sit well in my body,” Kruger remarks. “When the less agreeable aspects of myself – and the people I cherish – go unrecognized or misinterpreted, it can feel violent. Isolating.”
Eventually, an oddly pleasing chaos builds to a climax – crashing, convulsing, and engulfing. The drums feel heavy, the textured guitar noise rises, and beneath the controlled turmoil, a recognizable voice softly stumbles over its own words. The instrumentation halts, leading into eight long seconds of pure static filling your right ear until, abruptly – silence.
You find yourself longing for more, even if just for another second of static. There’s solace in the noise; it conveys what words cannot.
“I think this song captures the tension within the quiet drama of my mind – except in the song, I get to shout for a moment. Or at least our guitars do,” Kruger explains. “I’m grateful for the noise that can reflect some of the emotions that don’t have any other outlet.”
With a forthcoming UK tour, who knows what lies ahead for the five-member group? Perhaps more music is just within reach…
For now, you can listen to “Reaching” by Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys exclusively on Atwood Magazine.
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Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys flourish in the realms between soundscapes, now exploring the complexities of noise and silence in their track "Reaching."