Less than a year after the release of ‘Heaving’, Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys have shared news of a new album. ‘A Human Home’ was written during lockdown in Lucy’s room in Berlin. It is a low-fi, intimate and expressive collection of musical sketches which explore what it means to find, and to feel at home. Featuring a number of accidental and deliberate remote collaborations, it documents a specific, personal, and universally shared moment in time.

The original idea for the project was to gather poems, sketches and different artistic expressions from friends and family exploring their experience of isolation, and to use those as starting points for songs. What ended up feeling more interesting and true, were the unscripted conversations Lucy was having at the time. She collected voice notes and texts from friends and spent time with those, allowing them to inform her writing.

‘Rooms’ is a collaged duet with her best friend, Candice Cruse, who lives in South Africa and had just moved to Cape Town when lockdown began. Jean-Louise Parker, who had just moved to Berlin, added strings from her bedroom. This was the first time Jean-Louise and Lucy worked together. A year later Jean-Louise joined The Lost Boys as a full time member of the band.

The making of the album was a deliberate attempt to encourage the influence of others on her creative and personal process. An acknowledgement of how much of home lies not only in place, but in the people we love.

The full album will be available in May through Unique Records in Europe, and Metropolis in the USA.