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Every time Lucy drops, it’s a treat. Despite the pressures of an increasingly poisonous industry, the Western Mass pop savant born Cooper B.
Handy has continued to make music that’s adamantly earnest and far too strange to swim in the mainstream. 2022 saw Lucy collaborating with Drain Gang’s whitearmor, Surf Gang’s evilgiane, and his old friend Gods Wisdom.
Today (February 17), kicking off the new year six weeks in with a solo single titled “Strange As Can Be.” Read Next: Song You Need: Lucy and Gods Wisdom take an eerie stroll Like David Berman’s 2019 classic “She’s Making Friends, I’m Turning Stranger,” the new track is about creeping feelings of alienation from loved ones.
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