Premiere: Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys Return with “Reaching”

Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys thrive in the spaces between soundscapes, now delving into the intricacies of noise and silence with “Reaching.”

Stream: “Reaching” – Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys

There’s a kind of suffocation in silencing that doesn’t sit well in my body.

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**Almost a full year since their last release, A Human Home, Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys have finally returned with their latest single “Reaching.”**

Frequencies rattle right-to-left and drums steadily pulse in succession as a voice faintly murmurs an inaudible apology, the final words gently lingering, “…I’m not gonna hold onto it.” A voice breaks through the whispers in near-spoken word:

A thread the phone a bullet a bomb
The signals gone
The signals gone

Quiet
Quiet

Reaching - Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys — Reaching – Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys

A sense of brooding weaves its way through the Berlin-based outfit’s discography and “Reaching” is no exception. For frontwoman Lucy Kruger there exists an almost silent intensity rooted deep within her. It surfaces with her introspective songwriting, vocal presence, and subtle sonic intricacies.

“I think I’m intrigued and frightened by the thin veil between what we tend to call good and evil, tamed and feral, love and hatred,” Kruger says.

Who or what defines those blurry lines? Sometimes they’re one and the same. The South African-born artist’s lyrics echo those words you can seemingly never get right. It doesn’t matter how many times the words are etched over and over onto the page or repeated to infinite, mirrored versions of ourselves. It’s not enough… or just not quite right.

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

“There’s a kind of suffocation in silencing that doesn’t sit well in my body,” Kruger says. “When the less polite parts of myself – and the people I love – go unacknowledged or misunderstood, it can feel violent. Isolating.”

Finally, a strangely pleasant cacophony crescendos – crashing, convulsing, and consuming. Drums weigh heavy, textured guitar noise surges, and just under the controlled chaos a familiar voice murmurs and stumbles over herself. Instrumentation ceases to eight long seconds of pure static straight into your right ear until suddenly – silence.

You’re left aching for more, even if it were just one more static-filled second. There’s comfort in the noise; it speaks where words fail.

“I think this song is an expression of the tension in the quiet theatre of my mind – except in the song, I get to scream out for a moment. Or at least our guitars do,” Kruger says. “I’m glad for the noise that can echo some of the feelings that don’t otherwise have a way out.”

With an upcoming UK tour, who knows what else is on the horizon for the 5-piece? Perhaps more songs lie just within reach…

In the meantime, you can stream “Reaching” by Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys exclusively on Atwood Magazine.

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