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Apr 09, 2018 By Christopher Roberts Lucy Dacus

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Lucy Dacus released Historian last month via Matador. It was our Album of the Week. Previously she shared its first single and opening track, “Night Shift,” as well as a self-directed video for “Addictions,” and the audio for “Next of Kin.”

Historian is the singer/songwriter’s sophomore album, the follow-up to 2016’s No Burden. No Burden producer Collin Pastore produced the album, which was recorded in Nashville last March. John Congleton mixed the album a few months later.

A previous press release described the album as such: “It is a remarkably assured 10-track statement of intent that finds her unafraid to take on the big questions - the life-or-death reckonings, and the ones that just feel that way. It’s a record full of bracing realizations, tearful declarations and moments of hard-won peace, expressed in lyrics that feel destined for countless yearbook quotes and first tattoos.”

The press release also called Historian “a concept album about cautious optimism in the face of adversity” and said it covers systemic racism, creative burnout, and the death of her grandmother. “It starts out dark and ends hopeful, but it gets darker in between; it goes to the deepest, darkest, place and then breaks,” Dacus says in the press release. “What I’m trying to say throughout the album is that hope survives, even in the face of the worst stuff.”

Dacus also had this to say in the press release: “This is the album I needed to make. Everything after this is a bonus.”

Lucy Dacus Tour Dates:

April 6th Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle
April 7th Indianapolis, IN @ The HI-FI
April 8th Columbus, OH @ The Basement
April 9th Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern
April 11th Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair
April 13th Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
April 14th Washington DC @ Rock & Roll Hotel
April 19th Leeds, UK @ Belgrave Music Hall
April 20th Glasgow, UK @ The Hug and Pint
April 21st Manchester, UK @ Gullivers
April 22nd Birmingham, UK @ Hare and Hounds 2
April 24th Bristol, UK @ Louisiana
April 25th London, UK @ Omeara
April 26th Brighton, UK @ The Hope and Ruin
April 27th Paris, FR @ Espace B
April 30th Copenhagen, DE @ Stengade
May 1st Hamburg, GE @ Prinzenbar
May 3rd Cologne, GE @ Blue Shell
May 4th Amsterdam, NE @ Sugar Factory
June 14th-June 17th Dover, DE @ Firefly Festival

Read our review of Historian.

Pick up Under the Radar’s Spring 2018 print issue to read our interview with Lucy Dacus on Historian.

Read our 2016 Artist Survey interview with Lucy Dacus.

www.lucydacus.com

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