Lucy Dacus - Home Video

Pitchfork 77

Read Peyton Thomas’ review of the album.

The Guardian 0

The Boygenius member sets a homicidal fantasy to intense indie rock on her otherwise gentle third album

Lucy Dacus doesn’t seem like the homicidal type. Wielding nothing more threatening than a guitar and a level gaze, this seemingly mild-mannered Virginia songwriter is probably best known as one third of Boygenius, a supergroup that also includes Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker. Home Video is Dacus’s own third album of closely observed songwriting, most of which plays out at a gentle indie-rock chug or strummed lo-fi.

On the quietly devastating Thumbs, though, Dacus details how she would kill someone. “Quick and easy” is her claim, but the method she outlines is anything but: pushing her thumbs into a man’s eyes until they burst.