US indie-pop band Lucius recently released their self-titled album and celebrated with a Rolling Stone AU/NZ In My Room session.
The performance featured three songs from the record: “Mad Love”, “Final Days”, and “Borderline”.
The album, produced by the band’s Dan Molad, is the band’s fourth studio release and their first time writing and recording entirely on their own since their debut more than a decade ago.
Across 11 tracks, Lucius explore themes of relationships, grief, and life’s transitions with the close harmonies and warm instrumentation that have become their hallmark.
“‘Final Days’ begins our album,” Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig explain. “At home, sitting in the backyard, saying goodbye to the beloved tree that canopied the backyard, knowing the next day it would have to be cut down. Did she know it was coming? Was there a tree heaven she’d be welcomed to? Where does mother nature go after it dies?
“The questions led us to think of experiences like this in the human realm. It became more of an analogy as we were experiencing, simultaneously, births of children and the passing of a parent, feeling this delicate balance of life. The song is the perfect start of our record, both rooted and vulnerable, at once. And the knowing that it can and will take on different meanings in our lifetime.”
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Reflecting on the project as a whole, the band share, “Our fourth studio album is the four of us, just as we first started recording together as a band. It’s raw and honest and feels like coming home; something that resonates deeply in this moment of our lives.
“We are home in so many senses of the word; in the last couple of years we’ve started setting roots, finding life partners, building families, growing gardens. We got dogs, (you can hear them in the background if you listen close). We wrote songs about life and relationships. We recorded them in our home studios. We saw the beginnings and endings of life cycles while making this record, the beauty and fragility of the human experience. So it’s only fitting that this album is self-titled, it’s our story, who we are now and how we got here. Welcome to our living room.”
The result is an album that balances vulnerability and polish, while their In My Room session showcases Lucius at their most stripped back. Watch it in full above!
Lucius’ self titled debut album is out now.
