Lucia & The Best Boys has announced her sophomore album ‘Picking Petals’, due 31st July via Communion Records, alongside new single ‘You Look Like Somebody In Love’.
The follow-up to her 2023 debut ‘Burning Castles’ was recorded at Mogwai’s Castle of Doom studios in Glasgow with alt-pop producer Yves Rothman. Fairfull insisted on keeping the sessions in Scotland rather than relocating to Los Angeles, writing parts of the album in remote Highland bothies before heading into the studio.
Where ‘Burning Castles’ was built on metronomic beats and synth-led pop, ‘Picking Petals’ sets out to capture the energy of the band’s live shows: louder, more electric and more direct. The album is rooted in themes of persistence, self-perception and formative friendship, and draws on the creative community Fairfull has built around her.
Collaborators reflect that community plainly. Lauren Mayberry of Chvrches appears on ‘Lonely Girl’, released earlier this year, while The Last Dinner Party’s Abigail Morris features on baroque pop track ‘Big Romance’. New single ‘You Look Like Somebody In Love’ arrives with a video directed by Sal Redpath, whose credits include Sorry, Cardinals and Lime Garden.
Lucia & The Best Boys plays a run of UK festival dates before a headline tour in the autumn, culminating in her biggest show to date at Glasgow’s Barrowland Ballroom on 23rd October.
15 May – The Great Escape, Brighton
16 May – Get Together Festival, Sheffield
20 May – Bearded Theory Festival, Derbyshire
23 May – Dot To Dot Festival, Bristol
24 May – Dot To Dot Festival, Nottingham
23 Oct – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow
26 Oct – Manchester (venue TBC)
28 Oct – London (venue TBC)
