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Lucy Dacus is done thinking small. Two years after her 2016 debut,No Burden, won her unanimous acclaim as one of rocks most promising new voices, Dacus returns withHistorian, a remarkably assured 10-track statement of intent. It finds her unafraid to take onthebig questions thelife-or-death reckonings, andtheones that just feel that way. Its a record full of bracing realizations, tearful declarations and moments of hard-won peace, expressed in lyrics that feel destined for countless yearbook quotes and first tattoos.
Dacus and her band recordedthealbum in Nashville last March, re-teaming withNo Burdenproducer Collin Pastore, and mixed it a few months later with A-list studio wizard John Congleton.Thesound they created, with substantial input from multi-instrumentalist and live guitarist Jacob Blizard, is far richer and fuller thanthedebut an outward flowering of dynamic, living, breathing rock and roll. Dacus remarkable sense of melody and composition arethedriving force throughout, giving Historiantheimmersive feel of an album made by an artist in full command of her powers.
Thepast year, with its electoral disasters and other assorted heartbreaks, has been a rough one for many of us, Dacus included. She found solace in crafting a thoughtful narrative arc forHistorian, writing a concept album about cautious optimism intheface of adversity, with thematic links between songs that reveal themselves on repeat listens. It starts out dark and ends hopeful, but it gets darker in between; it goes tothedeepest, darkest, place and then breaks, she explains. What Im trying to say throughoutthealbum is that hope survives, even intheface oftheworst stuff.
Video for album track’Addictions’
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