Lucy Dacus has released a new single from her forthcoming LP Home Video. “VBS” arrives with an animated music video directed by Dacus’ longtime creative collaborator Marin Leong (who also helmed the visual for Dacus’ previous single “Hot & Heavy”). Check it out below.
“VBS” features Dacus alongside guitarist Jacob Blizard and Jake Finch on drums and organ. Of the track, Dacus said in a press release:
VBS means vacation bible school, and I went to tons of them. It’s where Christian parents send their kids over the winter, spring, or summer breaks from school to get closer to God, maybe learn some outdoor skills, and bring home useless crafts and totems like fruit of the spirit sand art and purity rings. I wrote the song in the van on the way to Nashville to record Home Video after seeing one of those readerboards outside a church advertising a wholesome church camp for kids. I thought about my first boyfriend, who I met at VBS, the resident bad boy who loved Slayer and weed more than Jesus. I took it upon myself to save him, and make him stop doing drugs (with an exception for snorting nutmeg). God, I was so lame.
Leong added:
A lot of the album examines navigation of self and how it evolves, and Lucy and I have often talked about bodies, the part they play in our ideation of self, and both connection and disconnection to them. We arrived at this world where her physical self is being distorted by the landscape that she’s present in, both in a beautiful and slightly uncanny way. One of the reasons I find animation and music compelling is the freedom in world building, the ability to translate story and tone, and synthesize it into a visual landscape using imagery that isn’t necessarily rooted in reality. And although I was treating this video like a diptych or braided essay with the song, rather than an overt visual depiction, I was able to make some subtle but direct references to the lyrics as well, so I’m excited for people to find those.
Home Video is out June 25 via Matador. The new LP follows Dacus’ 2018 LP Historian. Revisit “Lucy Dacus On What It’s Like to Have 20 Record Labels Fight Over You” on the Pitch.
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