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1.
Auditorium 03:50
Auditorium Here I speak Here I’m speaking Here I speak Here I’m speaking But you don’t hear me You don’t hear me Would you like to see me instead Do you see A snake Spitting What do you see Do you seek A slit Unstitching What do you keep Oh what do you keep Oh what do you keep from me In the auditorium Where the younger boys get sent In the auditorium Listen to the song get bent Now to the memorium Hear the older boys give speeches Here at the memorium There is only one story reaching But here I speak But here I’m speaking Here I shriek But you only want to See what you want to see You only want to See what you want to see You only want to See what you want to see You only want to Do you see a snake spitting A slit unstitching What do you keep Oh what do you keep me from Oh what do you keep me from In the auditorium Where the younger boys get sent In the auditorium Listen to the song get bent Now to the memorium Hear the older boys give speeches Here at the memorium There is only one story featured In the auditorium Where the younger boys get sent In the auditorium Listen to the song get bent Now to the memorium Hear the older boys give speeches Here at the memorium There is only one story featured
2.
Heaving 03:26
Send me to sleep A drop of something strong From my lover’s teeth Teach me to keep The doubt from growing The fear of the slit showing Touch me I’m weak I trace the line of love Just above the river of blood On the body Baby There’s death and there’s dawn And I can’t stop it at all And I don’t want to always be Dreaming of more I wanna be hot I wanna be hot and helpless I wanna be hot I wanna be hot and helpless I wanna be hot I wanna be hot and helpless I wanna be hot I wanna be hot and helpless In the forest of your form On our living room floor Heaving Heaving Heaving Heaving And then to sleep A drop of something strong From my lover’s teeth Teach me to keep The doubt from growing The fear of the slit showing The doubt from growing The fear of the slit showing On the body Baby
3.
Howl 04:46
4.
Stereoscope 03:55
Stereoscope Sunday’s got my throat Stereoscope Sunday’s got my throat Your blue eyes Pressed against the portal Past present Dim dazzling Do you mind if I leave on the light Do you mind the theft of a line My my my my morning My my my my mourning Weight in my hands To stop me from the calling Tick tock full stop Words of wonder Words to right Words of royal beauty bright Write write write write Right right right right right Lips to the page A tree a death a thought To be set To be saved To be treasured To be stored away A day a day a day day A day a day a day a day Stereoscope Sunday’s got my throat Stereoscope Sunday’s got my throat
5.
Hey girl let’s go Hey girl let’s go Hey girl let’s go Hey girl let’s go I’m sauntering out of a burning building I’m not sure if I made it But I’ve got plenty of ideas for re-arranging I don’t like it here But I don’t want to go And be out there on my own Oh no Oh no Oh no Oh no Hey girl let’s go Hey girl let’s go Hey girl let’s go Hey girl let’s go I’m catwalking out of a burning building Perhaps if I could frame it If I could find a way to stage it I’d make a euro or two Perhaps I’d put this name to use It’s the truth It’s the truth An excuse An excuse To give into the game Oh the fantasy of fame While I mock the magazine Those tender glossy She She She She Would she stay if she could see What’s in the centre fold out sheet Her life-sized lover on heat Locked inside of a pent up suite Sweet Sweet enough to stay Tame Train What came first The pet or the stray Killer Prey Prey Prey Prey Pray Pray Pray Pray Hey girl Let’s go Hey girl let’s go Hey girl let’s go Hey girl let’s go I’m watching the world from a burning building It’s the only home I know It’s the only home I know It’s the only home I know It’s the only home I know
6.
I want to be seen But I don’t want to show I’m not willing to go there Not willing to go I preach that it’s good to be alone But what do I know I’m lonely But I’ve been calling it learning And it’s only That I’m quietly burning So bring me friends to kiss my mouth Skin to soothe the feedback hounds That echo through this human house Deafeningly loud And I too proud to let them out To play with the kids in town I wanna sing to woo you I wanna sing really fucking well to fool you Into thinking I’m free That I’ve both very crisp and very love-soaked sheets I’m a cheat I’m a child I’m a charlatan I’m shy and I’m shit and I’m caving in And I don’t want you here to see this how this ends I’m a coward I vandalised a map And I buried it in song And I don’t know if it was right Or very very wrong And I don’t know what happens If you play along And I don’t want to lose you But I’m not gonna win ‘Cause I can’t seem to grasp That it’s not a competition I’m lonely But I’ve been calling it learning And it’s only That I’m quietly burning So bring me friends to kiss my mouth Skin to soothe the feedback hounds That echo through this human house Deafeningly loud And I too proud to let them out To play with the kids in town
7.
Front Row 03:15
It would be unwise To fantasise about your night It would be unwise To fantasise about your finding It would be unwise to Fantasise About the girl in the front row Who makes you feel That you’d like to know About her About you When there’s nothing and everything to lose About her About you When there’s nothing and everything to prove It would be unkind To think about the backstage lights It would be unkind To compare it to a warmer night One where I stood where she stood And held nothing back Though perhaps I thought I should So she could When it was new And I knew That there was nothing that I wouldn’t do When it was new And I knew That there was nothing that I wouldn’t do But I wouldn’t keep you If you didn’t want me to But when I close my eyes She is near to you And you are sound and song And sweet and it feeds and it feels And it’s her and you And I’m trying not to slip But it’s no use And I’m holding two Too much from you I’m holding two Too much from you I’m holding two I’m holding
8.
Tender 04:44
I’m finding it hard to be tender I’m finding it tough to the touch The blade of the tongue the defender The trace of the thumb to crush The weight of the water The way through the waves The hopeful daughter Unable to play The weight of the water The way through the waves The hopeful daughter Unable to stay I’m finding it hard Spinning Sinking Is it the same thing Splitting Blinking A slit to an ending Healing Heaving The bile that the past brings Dusting Dreaming Corners for meaning Dear I can’t find The switch to the light Dear you’re quite right I’ve lost it tonight And how I’d like to save this Dear I can’t find The switch to the light Dear you’re quite right I’ve lost it tonight I’m finding it hard to be tender I’m finding it tough to the touch The blade of the tongue the defender The trace of the thumb to crush Oh dear I lied I pulled out the wires But wait for the warmth From the electrical fire
9.
Heaven Sent 04:01
I think about The open mouth The hungry sky Your soft thighs Is there enough time How much it of it will you be mine Did you ever think it could be Something quite as sweet as this to breathe In your lover’s words the morning sea Nothing quite as soft as She is heaven sent And I don’t want her to leave Did you ever think it could seep Quiet into the bones a body weeps In your lover's arms how do you keep Something quite as light as She is heaven bent And I don’t want her to leave I just want to feel her body free I just want to feel her next to me I just want to know what she needs I just want to know she knows Did you see the way she looked at me I think she loves me Don’t you Did you see the way she looked at me I think she loves me
10.
Undress 04:59
I can’t hear clearly I can’t hear clearly And I don’t want a seat in this house That’s afraid of being wet Where I can’t seem to undress anything I can’t seem to undress anything And I don’t want to want it all But what if I’m not more Will you still call What made you fall in the first place I’m so behind in this race Did I just call it a race I can’t rest But I can’t progress either I can’t stop Trying to thin down these thighs I can’t stop Trying to thin down my thighs Please don’t tell me you love me In this light I won’t be able to believe It’s a lie It’s a lie It’s a lie Look how beautiful you are when you fly Why would I pull you out from that sky Look how beautiful you are when you fly Why would I pull you out from that sky Look how beautiful you are when you fly Why would I pull you out from that sky Look how beautiful you are when you fly Why would I pull you out from that sky It’s better when you’re here you know But I’m so scared of being left alone That sometimes it feels I might just ask you to go To stop the fear in my heart that feeds on the hope That you won’t Take me home Leave me alone Take me home Please don’t go Please don’t go Please don’t go Please don’t go

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Heaving, the first musical departure from Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys' recent tape series, is a vivid, visceral, and unbounded exploration of sonic storytelling.
Relying on the idea articulated by poet and essayist Anne Carson that "every sound we make is a bit of autobiography. It has a totally private interior yet its trajectory is public. A piece of inside projected to the outside”, Kruger dove into the composition process through performance, rather than with the pen. The album offered the artist and hopes to offer the audience, a coming home to the body through a physical relationship to sound.

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released April 7, 2023

Album art by Don’t Try Anything New (Julia Schimautz/Francis Broek)

Mixed by Simon Ratcliffe at Sound & Motion Studios (Cape Town)
Mastered by Uwe Teichert at Elektropolis (Brussels)

Drums for Heaving, Stereoscope, Undress, Howl and Auditorium recorded by Dirk Feistel at Studio X (Berlin)

Drums for Heaven Sent, Burning Building, Feedback Hounds, Front Row and Tender as well as all guitars and bass guitars recorded by André Leo (Berlin)

All violas recorded by Jean-Louise Parker (Berlin)

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Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys Berlin, Germany

An art pop noise project fronted by Berlin-based/South African born musician, Lucy Kruger.

Over the last four years the band have released and toured a trilogy of albums. The 'tapes' series documents a growing restlessness and an eventual release.

Their latest offering, Heaving, was released on the 7th of April and is a visceral, pulsing and intimate exploration of sound and story.
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