Lucia & The Best Boys announces her new album Picking Petals, due for release on 31 July via Communion Records. Alongside the announcement, she reveals new single ‘You Look Like Somebody In Love,’ a second taste of the album following ‘Lonely Girl,’ a collaboration with CHVRCHES’ Lauren Mayberry released earlier this year.
Picking Petals is the culmination of hard graft and a bold vision – an album shaped by a lineage of performers who command the stage without apology and rooted in Lucia Fairfull’s Scottish upbringing and creative community she has built around her in Glasgow and beyond.
This rich and historical Scottish landscape is where Fairfull started work on Picking Petals, heading north to write in weather-beaten bothies alongside the band or in solitude. Likewise, the songwriter was insistent that acclaimed alt-pop producer Yves Rothman experience her stomping ground rather than sundrenched LA, hunkering down in Mogwai’s Castle of Doom studios, a Glasgow townhouse transformed into a citadel of sound.
The struggle is documented vividly in new single ‘You Look Like Somebody In Love,’ released today with a video directed by Sal Redpath (Sorry, Cardinals, Lime Garden). The song dances with bothy bar violins, regret and longing, as Fairfull sings, “Between all the pictures, I took of sunsets, are ones I took of you. I’ve been in so deep, the hill is steep, but I’ll climb it for the view.”
Picking Petals:
- Back Inside My Heart
- Lonely Girl (feat. Lauren Mayberry)
- Wolf Cry
- Better For The Worse
- You Look Like Somebody In Love
- Picking Petals
- Pleasure And A Prayer
- Forgot The Arrow
- Big Romance (feat. Abigail Morris)
- Ephemeral
