Wrapping up the year with style and enigmatic poise, Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys have just dropped the first single off their 2023 album, and “Stereoscope” is every bit as ethereal and poetically unusual as you might expect from them by now.
Grating, high-tone minimalism kicks off “Stereoscope”, while Kruger’s dreamy vocals spins visceral and poetic tales inspired by “The Lady With The Braid” – a song by the late ‘60s and ’70s composer Dory Previn. Hinged on delivering weighty topics through a warm, engaging and confessional lens, Kruger unspools her own layered experiences audibly for our perusal, as echoing, trip-hop synth and acoustics waves together.
A stereoscope, for those of you – like me – in the dark here, is an optical device which allows for two images of the same object – taken at slightly different angles – to be viewed at the same time, creating an impression of depth.
Playing on this concept, the accompanying visual is composed of two separate videos, spliced into one – as a stereoscope might. To get there, the 148 frames of the video were printed, sliced into strips and then alternately arranged. The result is a fascinating, wholly analogue, occasionally imperfect visual which is as fundamentally captivating as the track itself.
Feature pic by Holgar Nitschke
