Following the release of ‘Reaching’ earlier this year followed by their first ever UK tour, Lucy Kruger & The Lost boys kick off the lead into their sixth studio album Pale Bloom (out February 2026), with ‘Anchor’.

In the The Lost Boys’ latest single, Lucy Kruger – in soft staccato – blends the mnemonic features of childhood song with yearning. Though the scaffolding of the track is a cleverly co-opted nostalgia, it is lifted free from a saccharine past by the exhaling viola, short searing guitar and Kruger’s specific and startling enunciation. The accompanying visual of Kruger (un)devouring a pale white rose – by DTAN, the band’s long-time collaborators – offers a symbol of undoing. Yet, rather than the personal violence of purging, we witness a tender reassembly of the discarded, outside the perimeter of the body – to care for what is excised, is to care for the site of excision.

“’Anchor’ speaks to the eternal frustration of wanting to be both moored and meandering — to be known, yet able to create yourself anew.” Lucy expands “Can you sail into the unknown and still remain safe? Probably not. The song longs for home, but also for a love like the one you might feel before the imagined fall from grace that comes with leaving childhood. For somebody to say ‘it’s all going to be okay’, and to believe them.”