SA: Lucy Kruger and The Lost Boys share new single Heaving

The title track for the album, Heaving, a word that recurs throughout the 10 songs, is available for streaming and download on major digital platforms. The digital album and its vinyl can be pre-ordered and pre-added here and here, respectively.

Throughout the song, Kruger conveys the sense of effort and inevitability found in both the process and the themes she is exploring. The song is accompanied by a video which shows a packed room of sweating bodies while her chest heaves.

“I wanted this album to be less ethereal somehow,” Kruger said. “[It is] rooted in the depths of my body, of my lover’s body, of the earth, where it is dark and wet, and where you might find rot, but you will also certainly find life. To somehow get pulled into the moment, through a focus on sensation.

“A lot of the lyrics deal with touch, smell, taste. The body, and all it holds, imagined intimately, almost as landscape, but also for what it is. And for what will happen to it in time. A reckoning with death and loss that might allow for a more vibrant understanding and engagement with life.”

She added: “The new album 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.”