Home Video
| Lucy Dacus
Home Video
Home Video is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Lucy Dacus. It was released on June 25, 2021, via Matador.It was promoted by the singles "Thumbs", "Hot & Heavy", "VBS", and "Brando". -Wikipedia
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NME
Turning to childhood diaries as inspiration, the singer-songwriter transports us with gawky, awkward vignettes from her youth.
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Atwood Magazine
This record makes me hope to run into Dacus at a party, to stand in the corner and gradually unearth each other’s traumas over the sound of radio hits. It does not get stuck in the cycles of the past, and demands that you break away too. So enter into Dacus’ world and move forward, one step and one memory at a time.
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Rolling Stone
Lucy Dacus’ ‘Home Video’ Plays Like a Brilliant Coming of Age Memoir.
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Paste Magazine
Indie rock’s favorite storyteller finds beauty in the discomfort of her own coming-of-age on third LP.
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Sputnik Music
Home Video is a vibrant, unsparing celebration of life's many chapters and what it means to be human: flaws, doubts and all.
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Stereogum
On Home Video, Dacus sounds intent on recapturing a moment that’s already gone.
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The Guardian
The Boygenius member sets a homicidal fantasy to intense indie rock on her otherwise gentle third album.
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The Revue
She is one of the must-hear voices in all of music. And the young woman from Richmond, Virginia is just 26 years old, and Dacus is only getting better, as she demonstrates on her spectacular third album, Home Video.
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Clash Magazine
'Home Video' concludes with the intense ‘Please Stay’ followed by the anthemic eight-minute ‘Triple Dog Dare’ which is full of nostalgia, longing and innocence. It’s a powerful ending to a powerful album, confirming Home Video as another exquisite offering from Lucy Dacus.
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The Post
Lucy Dacus’ ‘Home Video’ is a gut punch you’ll want to take.
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No Ripcord
Her strength as a lyricist is unwavering, even on her sparest, most nondescript ballads (Thumbs). But, as perkier indie-rock tunes like First Time and Brando prove, her careful arpeggios can also shine when she lets a little looser.
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mxdwn Music
Every track on Home Video tells a new story in a sophisticated manner that keeps the listener captivated from start to finish.
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Under the Radar Magazine
Home Video will appeal to Dacus’ existing fan base, but also holds the potential to bring hordes of new fans that will find themselves in the middle of a story not exactly their own.
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Belwood Music
While as a record Home Video is somewhat flawed and didn’t offer the strongest first impression, in its finer moments I feel it worked well as an introduction Lucy Dacus’ style and sensibilities as a songwriter. It’s a little inconsistent, and would benefit from more fleshed out arrangements, but the lyricism is stunning throughout and to that end the album was well worth investing the proper time and attention.
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Slant Magazine
Lucy Dacus’s Home Video Is a Powerful, Empathetic Tribute to the Past.
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Metro Weekly
Often a convenient shortcut to warm, fuzzy feelings, artists of all stripes tend to get a lot of mileage out of nostalgia. But for Lucy Dacus, never a stranger to casually baring her soul, nostalgia is a fraught, heavy, potentially painful emotion. Her third and latest album, Home Video thoughtfully teases out what it means to leave a version of ourselves behind, and what we might find when we revisit that self years later.
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Music Connection
Lucy Dacus hurt my feelings with her new album Home Video, yet I can only thank her for it. Packed with nostalgia and woven with wit, Dacus is a cohesive storyteller in her songs about firsts, endings, and the messy bits in between. The album is delightfully, unmistakably queer with songs like “Christine” and “VBS” rehashing some religious trauma to guitar riffs and sweet, haunting vocals.
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The Upcoming
A total avoidance of generalisations elevates Dacus’s songwriting as more human than much other music based on coming-of-age reflections; its refreshing that she doesn’t try to be pleasant. Nostalgia dominates in terms of the sound, but the tracks themselves are precise, often barbed, in their emotional tone. Dacus is therefore far from the bleary-eyed cloudy pastels of aesthetic indie – rather, she climbs into her experiences, gripping them from the inside out with raw, poetic purpose to bring their every colour, sound and taste to the surface.
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Beats Per Minute
Friendship literally manifests itself on acoustic guitar ballad “Going Going Gone”, where Dacus is joined by boygenius bandmates Julien Baker and Phoebe Bridgers (they also contribute to “Please Stay“). The end of the track continues after the song itself is over, where listeners can hear giggling and Dacus expressing her gratitude for everyone’s help. Sure, Dacus may have called in the favor, yet it was answered because she is loved. And just like that, a new memory was made.
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Recommended Listen
Home Video simultaneously looks back on growing and pain, and shows us Lucy Dacus in the prime of her life.
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Stereoboard
‘Home Video’ is metatextual, in a way, as long as we’re willing to accept that the second text is an autobiography we’re discovering in real time.
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The Student Playlist
Though it fluctuates between intensely intimate moments and full-band productions, ‘Home Video’ is Lucy Dacus’ strongest album yet in lyrical terms.
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Highway Queens
Overall while there’s no individual song on Home Video as good as Night Shift the quality across the album feels as consistent and more confident than her previous releases. Dacus’s music has beauty, humour, warmth, a novelist’s insight into human relationships – cerebral and pretty, which really is as good as it gets.
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Afterglow
Her music hits square in the chest, describing the most gruesome of emotions, memories, and fantasies from puberty and beyond with an ease of somebody sipping rosé on her couch. Enhanced by tight, creative musicianship, Home Video is novelistic storytelling from start to finish. And like wine, it may best be enjoyed ten years from now.
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The Indiependent
Home Video is a triumph of a third album from Dacus. Like many of us this year, she looks back on her past to provide an album that is sensitive, vulnerable but also soothing and comforting. Through the varied musical and vocal arrangements employed, Dacus is not only able to show how much care has gone into the making of this album but she also shows the flawed, vulnerable side to herself and suggests that we should not be afraid to show these sides of ourselves either.
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Pitchfork
Addressing faith, young love, and nostalgia, the songwriter’s autobiographical third album is empathetic yet unsparing, catchy and finely crafted.
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The Fire Note
There is no question that you know her sound is real and Dacus hides nothing. Home Video feels like another solid stepping stone as Lucy Dacus becomes a regular in your playlist now and should be well into the future!
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Giglist
Dacus' new album is witty and frank, juvenile and mature, messy and refined all at once, staking a claim for one of 2021's albums of the year.
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musicOMH
Nostalgia can be a dangerous thing – there’s always the danger of wallowing in an idealistic past. Yet with Dacus’ unblinking, unsentimental eye, there’s no danger of this album going that way. With a quotable line on almost every song, Home Video cements Dacus’ reputation as one of her generation’s major talents.
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Gigwise
The new Lucy Dacus album is a work of art. There aren’t many other ways to accurately describe Dacus’ third album Home Video and its songs full of youth, love, and laughter. Drawing from Dacus’ own adolescent experiences, she has created lush sonic stories both tender and anthemic.
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The Skinny
Home Video is intimate, occasionally discomfiting, and, most of all, brave – the sound of an artist choosing to be at her most vulnerable, in front of a bigger following than she’s ever had before.
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Hotpress
Home Video is a remarkably comforting listen – a testament to Lucy’s unique talents as a songwriter, which particularly shine on ‘VBS’. Through the specificness of her approach, she crafts stories that are often as hilarious as they are devastating – serving as touching tributes to friendships and relationships of various forms.
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Narc Magazine
Home Video is definitely her finest work to date, the heartfelt sentiment that runs alongside the relatable nature of the themes make it a superb record.
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Spectrum Culture
After years of writing impressionistic ballads in the abstract, Lucy Dacus has returned with a collection of songs steeped in nostalgia, regret, and explicit personal connection.
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Treblezine
So rather than an extension or evolution of Dacus’ style, her new album simply presents a new facet of her art. Undoubtedly one more among many to come.
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Uproxx
he honors the original emotional intensity that these stories had at their source, while imbuing them with the perspective of a person who has moved well beyond them toward something resembling wisdom.
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The Forty-Five
On her third album, the American songwriter plunders her past for gutsy, clear-cut tales of teenage love and friendship.
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