Lucy Dacus has debuted a brand new music whereas performing dwell in Brooklyn with Julien Baker.
On October 8, Lucy Dacus was revealed because the “particular visitor” performer for Julien Baker’s rescheduled live performance in Brooklyn, New York. The present was meant as a substitute date for Baker’s October 6 set, which was lower brief because of the singer falling ailing.
In the course of the October 6 present, Dacus appeared onstage to wild applause, solely to interrupt the information to the viewers that the gig was being cancelled as Baker was too ailing to proceed performing. A substitute date was introduced for October 8 with a “particular visitor” performer.
Quick ahead to October 8 and Dacus carried out a brief six-song acoustic set earlier than Julien Baker’s make-up set, and debuted a brand new music. Watch fan-shot footage of Lucy Dacus’s new music under.
The music has but to obtain a title, however was “devoted to lesbians”. “Comfortable Lesbian Day. This music is devoted to lesbians,” Dacus stated earlier than starting the music.
Late final month, Baker debuted two new tracks in Chicago – ‘Center Youngsters’, and ‘Excessive In The Basement’. She was additionally joined by Bartees Unusual in Washington DC for a particular rendition of ‘Ringside’.
Baker and Dacus are two of the three members that make up Boygenius, who earlier this 12 months, received three Grammy Awards: Greatest Rock Efficiency (‘Not Sturdy Sufficient’), Greatest Rock Track (‘Not Sturdy Sufficient’) and Greatest Different Music Album (‘The Report’).
It got here shortly after the trio introduced their hiatus at a secret present in LA. “We’re going away for the foreseeable future,” followers quoted them as saying. “That is our final present, and we’re feeling it.”
Again in December, Boygenius instructed NME that they appreciated the thought of the band’s future remaining “a shock” after their debut LP ‘The Report’ was named our album of the 12 months for 2023.
Baker continued: “I like having this band be one thing that, as a result of it’s extra ephemeral or no matter, it’s not concretely tied to one among us or an individual now we have to dwell in day-after-day. It’s one thing we are able to revisit after we really feel motivated to, or it’s a spot we are able to retreat to. I like saving it as one thing sacred as a substitute of feeling like I’ve to continuously grind on it.”
‘The Report’ earned Boygenius their first UK Quantity One album final April. In a five-star overview, NME stated the challenge was “the moment traditional we had been hoping for”.
