Lucius Heads Back to the Future

Indie band Lucius’s Holly Laessig and Jess Wolfe recently ended a 22-date string of shows with the National and The War On Drugs. Jess played many shows at 8 and 9 months pregnant and Holly and some of the other band members had kids on board too.

The family atmosphere extends to their tour experiences, including time with close friends like The War on Drugs’ Adam Granduciel, who contributed vocals and guitar to their new single, “Old Tape,” part of an expanded version of their second studio album, Wildewoman, released 10 years ago.

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Lucius’s lyrics from 2023’s single “Stranger Danger”—“Covered up / with a nice warm melody / put the kettle on / sit and watch the TV”— tell the story of much of their music, a sound that often feels comforting and familiar yet exciting.

They’re working on a new album for release in spring.

“It feels like coming back to ourselves in a lot of ways,” says Holly. “We made Wildewoman just as a band, and when we were amidst re-recording that and feeling that energy with us as a core band, we wanted to do that again. We recorded it ourselves, and kind of got back to the heart of it.”

Jess says, “We’ve made a lot of music with so many incredible people, as collaborators and different producers that we admire and love. Especially given where we are in our lives and how we’ve seen the world and how much collaboration we’ve done, it feels very close to the chest. It feels very much like we’ve reconnected with our roots.”

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