LUCY DACUS
releases new single and video, ‘Best Guess’
Watch the video featuring Cara Delevingne, Towa Bird, Naomi Mcpherson + more
UK/EU Tour dates announced
Tickets on General Sale Friday 21st February at 10am local time
New album, Forever Is A Feeling, out March 28th
Lucy Dacus has released ‘Best Guess’, the third track taken from her highly anticipated new album Forever is a Feeling – out March 28th via Geffen Records/Polydor Label Group. Along with the track comes a self-directed video which, like the album’s striking, Renaissance-themed artwork, further subverts the classics: this time, a 90s CK ad, as reimagined alongside a cast of Naomi Mcpherson, Cara Delevigne, Towa Bird, ER Fightmaster, and other “hot mascs” that Dacus herself recruited via a social media open casting call last month.
‘Best Guess’ is Lucy Dacus’ unique take on a love song, an anthem of queer tenderness that captures that mix of excitement and uncertainty as two people take a romantic chance with one another.
The song follows first tracks ‘Ankles’ and ‘Limerence’ which were released in January. Dacus debuted the former in a dazzling performance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon wearing custom Rodarte, a nod to the song’s Parisian music video where she plays a painting that comes to life.
Following a run of intimate sold-out shows in February and March, the Forever Is A Feeling Tour begins in Philadelphia on April 16th, with more dates already added due to demand: support comes from special guest Katie Gavin (of Muna) and jasmine.4.t.
Today’s release also comes with news of additional UK/EU shows for the Forever Is A Feeling Tour: tickets are available on general sale on Friday February 21st, at 10AM local time.
For the North American leg, Dacus has partnered with PLUS1 so that $1 per ticket goes to providing critical relief and long-term recovery support for individuals, families, and communities impacted by the devastating LA wildfires via the PLUS1 LA Fires Fund.
PRE-ORDER FOREVER IS A FEELING HERE
An Evening With Lucy Dacus UK & Europe
March 10th – Saint Eustache Church, Paris, FR *SOLD OUT*
March 12th – Vondelkerk, Amsterdam, NL *SOLD OUT*
March 14th – Säälchen at Haltzmarkt, Berlin, DE *SOLD OUT*
March 18th – Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, UK (early and late show) *SOLD OUT*
Forever Is A Feeling Tour UK & Europe
June 12th – Oslo, NO @ Rockefeller
June 16th – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso
June 19th – Berlin, DE @ Astra
June 24th – Brussels, BE @ Ancienne Belgique
June 25th – Paris, FR @ Trianon
June 26th – London, UK @ Brixton Academy
June 30th – Edinburgh, UK @ Usher Hall
July 2nd – Manchester, UK @ Academy
July 3rd – Dublin, IE @ Iveagh Gardens
July 5th – Roskilde, DK @ Roskilde Festival
# with Katie Gavin and jasmine.4.t.
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ABOUT FOREVER IS A FEELING:
While Dacus’s last album, Home Video, explored the world of childhood and adolescence. Forever Is A Feeling is decidedly adult. The lushness of the album’s sound is matched by a new frankness in Dacus’s approach to sexuality and romance. “So bite me on the shoulder, pull my hair,” Dacus sings on ‘Ankles’. “Pull me by the ankles to the edge of the bed, and take me like you do in your dreams.” The sex in ‘Ankles’ remains fantasy—as in many of the songs, love doesn’t come easy, desire has to be resisted—but the willingness to talk about it shows a new forthrightness, a new and brave willingness to express desire. The song was originally written as a ballad, Dacus says, but on the album melancholy has been transfigured. Pulsing strings build to a thick texture of drums, guitars, a dancingly exuberant bass line, and electronics. Frustration becomes flirtatious, playful, full of the excitement of shared attraction.
Most of the songs on Forever Is A Feeling were written between Fall 2022 and Summer 2024. “I got kicked in the head with emotions,” says Dacus. “Falling in love, falling out of love.” She had to make peace with the price of the love she wanted. “You have to destroy things in order to create things. And I did destroy a really beautiful life.”
Forever is a feeling—and maybe only a feeling. But that’s not to say it’s nothing. Back to the Will St. John painting, where the album’s title appears tattooed across Dacus’s chest. Tattoos are permanent marks, we think, but they can only last as long as the flesh they’re written on. “You can’t actually capture forever,” Dacus says. “But I think we feel forever in moments. I don’t know how much time I’ve spent in forever, but I know I’ve visited.” Love ends, tattoos fade, flesh falters; even paintings and songs aren’t forever, not really, though these songs will last a long time. To love another mortal being is to cast one’s lot with the temporary.
