It’s no great mystery that we love ourselves a bit of Lucia & the Best Boys, following their meteoric rise from alt-rock gem ‘Melted Ice Cream’ a couple of years ago, all the way through their definitive Cheap Talk EP, and then to their recent re-emergence from LUCIA to Lucia & the Best Boys. Following the feminist rebellion of ‘Good Girls Do Bad Things’, the Glaswegian band, and in particular their enigmatic leader Lucia Fairfull, is showing a new side to their creativity with ‘Let Go’. For this song, Fairfull trades in the band’s high power electronics and thunderous alt-rock, for a more intimate style. While instrumentally, ‘Let Go’ is more restrained, it’s emotionally honest unlike any songs that have come before from the band’s chief songwriter. As Fairfull recalls: “Last year I had a tough time trying to put my thoughts into comprehensible words because I was emotionally confused and sometimes lost. This led me to try things out, like writing on a piano which I never really do as I’ve always started writing songs on a guitar. Somehow this allowed these words to spill out of me whilst sitting at a piano, after a very long and frustrating time of finding what I wanted to say.” Later, she finished the song with friend Alex Greenwald, of Phantom Planet, at his house in Los Angeles. They didn’t have a proper studio set-up, and so planned to record this first iteration of ‘Let Go’ as a demo, yet upon recording, the song came across as so present that they decided to keep it as there was no way to capture that true emotion again. The result is a warm, direct, vulnerable and authentic listen that could very well be Lucia & the Best Boys’ best song yet. - Hannah Thacker