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Feb 06, 2025 By Mark Redfern Photography by Dana Trippe

Lucius have announced a new self-titled album and released a new single from it, “Gold Rush.” They have also announced some tour dates. Lucius is due out May 2 via Fantasy. Below, check out the single, album details, and tour dates.

Lucius is fronted by Holly Laessig and Jess Wolfe and also features Dan Molad and Peter Lalish. Molad produced the album, which follows 2022’s Second Nature.

The album was recorded at Los Angeles’ Altamira Sound and Molad’s home studio, Sounds Like a Fire. Since the recording of Lucius, Molad’s studio has been damaged by the recent wildfires. The album features The War on Drugs’ Adam Granduciel (“Old Tape”), Dawes’ Taylor Goldsmith (“Stranger Danger”), Madison Cunningham (“Impressions”), Ethan Gruska (“Impressions”), Luke Temple (electric guitar, “Do It All For You”), Rob Moose (strings, “At the End of the Day”), and Evan Smith (flutes, “At the End of the Day”).

Lucius collectively had this to say about the new album in a press release: “Our fourth studio album is the four of us, just as we first started recording together as a band. It’s raw and honest and feels like coming home; something that resonates deeply in this moment of our lives. We are home in so many senses of the word; in the last couple of years we’ve started setting roots, finding life partners, building families, growing gardens. We got dogs, (you can hear them in the background if you listen close). We wrote songs about life and relationships. We recorded them in our home studios. We saw the beginnings and endings of life cycles while making this record, the beauty and fragility of the human experience. So it’s only fitting that this album is self-titled, it’s our story, who we are now and how we got here. Welcome to our living room.”

Of the new single, the band says: “‘Gold Rush’ is that addictive sweetness to love. The roller coaster highs and lows. The sugary can’t get enough of you, can’t live with you feeling that keeps you coming back for more. It’s energy and grit: guitars wailing, heavy backbeat, dynamic vocals which flip from verse to chorus—mellow to strong—playing off the band and echoing the sentiment of the lyrics.”

Lucius Tracklist:

1. Final Days
2. Gold Rush
3. Do It All For You
4. Mad Love
5. Stranger Danger
6. Hallways
7. Old Tape (feat. Adam Granduciel)
8. Impressions (feat. Madison Cunningham)
9. Borderline
10. Orange Blossoms
11. At the End of the Day

Lucius Tour Dates:

May 6—St. Louis, MO—Delmar Hall*
May 7—Iowa City, IA—The Englert Theatre*
May 9—St. Paul, MN—Palace Theatre*
May 10—Madison, WI—Majestic Theatre*
May 11—Detroit, MI—The Majestic*
May 13—Pittsburgh, PA—Mr. Smalls Theatre*
May 15—Brooklyn, NY—Brooklyn Paramount*
May 16—Washington, D.C.—Lincoln Theatre*
May 17—Carrboro, NC—Cat’s Cradle*
May 19—Charlotte, NC—Neighborhood Theatre*
May 20—Richmond, VA—The National*
May 22—Philadelphia, PA—Union Transfer*
May 23—Woodstock, NY—Bearsville Theater*
May 24—Boston, MA—Boston Calling
July 24—Portland, ME—The State Theater
October 17—Indianapolis, IN—The Vogue
October 18—Chicago, IL—The Salt Shed
November 11—Phoenix, AZ—Crescent Ballroom
November 12—Santa Fe, NM—The Lensic
November 14—Denver, CO—Ogden Theatre
November 15—Salt Lake City, UT—The Depot
November 17—Seattle, WA—Showbox
November 18—Portland, OR—Wonder Ballroom
November 20—San Francisco, CA—The Warfield
November 21—Los Angeles, CA—The Wiltern
*with special guest Victoria Canal

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