Lucy Dacus shares anti-patriotism tune “Perpetually Half Mast” for the 4th of July: Stream

Upfront of the 4th of July, Lucy Dacus has launched a brand new anti-patriotism single referred to as “Perpetually Half Mast”. It’s the third observe from the singer-songwriter’s year-long vacation tune sequence, aptly titled 2019. It follows her cowl of “La Vie En Rose” by Édith Piaf for Valentines Day and her unique tune “My Mom & I” for Moms Day.

“Perpetually Half Mast” is about confronting the “unavoidable culpability” of being an American citizen, shopper, and customarily disliked illustration of the nation when touring outdoors of the US. Any aware American who has travelled overseas, and even to our neighboring international locations, shall be conversant in the sensation. It’s a bizarre kind of disgrace and confusion. In a press launch, Dacus asks that as an alternative of permitting this guilt to paralyze us, we should always “attempt to let it affect us in constructive methods.”

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“Sadly, even at my finest, I really feel disoriented and heavy about being an American more often than not,” Lucy Dacus explains within the press launch. “I began scripting this tune whereas we had been touring in Europe. I at all times really feel most American once I’m outdoors of the U.S., and it’s often a horrible feeling. I’m continuously on the point of apologizing for unintentionally representing a rustic that’s so harmful. Although in the identical breath, I like my house, the folks dwelling there, the panorama, loads of what America has to supply. There’s a every day dissonance one endures as an American whereby a lot of our pleasure is counterweighted by disgrace, the place a lot of our delight lives in tandem with injustice and struggling.”

“Perpetually Half Mast” strings alongside a rustic slide guitar and torpid strumming whereas treading a poppy, bass drum-forward beat. True to Lucy Dacus’ songwriting, it’s bought complicated lyrics that sound deceptively easy by the use of her supply. The refrain hangs tight to its titular line: “Let your flag fly at without end half mast.” Give it a pay attention beneath.

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Lucy Dacus recorded your entire 2019 assortment throughout sporadic periods over the last two years. All of the tracks will ultimately be launched on a bodily EP later this yr. Different holidays she’s eyeing for tune pegs embrace Bruce Springsteen’s birthday, Halloween, and Christmas.

There’s an opportunity you may hear “Perpetually Half Mast” stay this yr, too. Lucy Dacus is at present on tour with stops at Roskilde Pageant, Newport Folks Pageant, XPoNential Pageant, Hopscotch Pageant, and Mitski’s “final present indefinitely”. Try her full listing of tour dates.