Pale Bloom is Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys’ seven studio album and most patient record yet — a slow, intimate meditation on growth, inheritance, and what it means to bloom at your own pace.
The opening moments of Pale Bloom feel familiar but half-buried. A slowed-down nursery rhyme asks, “Mary, Mary, how contrary? Why did your forest never grow?” What follows is not an answer, but an unfurling — a beat arrives, the band steps in, and something long withheld begins to bloom.
Pale Bloom is Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys’ seventh studio album and their most patient work to date. Written over five years, the record allows time itself to become a collaborator, carrying traces of childhood, faith, fear, and desire. Where earlier releases captured moments of urgency, Pale Bloom settles into something slower and more sedimented — intimate, deliberate, and quietly defiant.
Recurring images of a garden that refuses to grow thread through the album, alongside nursery rhymes and religious language bent toward deeply personal truths. Sonically grounded yet expansive, sombre strings stretch toward a complicated heaven, while stoic grooves anchor guitars that grind and drift through wide, luminous spaces. Kruger’s voice — raw, precise, and sonorous — moves through it all with searching intensity.
The focus single, “Bloom,” introduces the album’s inner world and is accompanied by a striking black-and-white video directed by Belgian filmmaker Lena Nerinckx. The film unfolds as a liminal dream in which Kruger appears as both gardener and garden — a meditation on growth, inheritance, and surrender.
Recorded in Berlin with André Leo and mixed by long-time collaborator Simon Ratcliffe, Pale Bloom gathers years of touring, trust, and transformation into a single, deliberate gesture — songs wrested from unyielding ground and allowed to grow darker, stranger, and more alive.
“Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys continue their fearless evolution—tapping into childhood memory, myth, and sonic experimentation to create something at once intimate and expansive.”
BABYSTEPS
“A perfect storm of posturing gothic art pop with a grungy, low-tempo backbone, spellbindingly dark and angsty, and flecked with violin lines that lent the songs a satisfyingly Venus In Furs-esque eeriness.”
CLASH
“An intense, sonically charged atmosphere fueled by noise-infused rock, ambient pop and playful experimentation makes Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys ever so addictive. Whether you ache for tender, finger-picked confessions or long for the release of gritty, guitar catharsis, the Berlin-based outfit offers a cure.”
ATWOOD MAGAZINE
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