Lucia & The Best Boys

Picking Petals, the forthcoming second album by Lucia & The Best Boys, is the culmination of hard graft and a bold vision - an album shaped by a lineage of performers who command the stage without apology and rooted in Lucia Fairfull’s Scottish upbringing and creative community she has built around her in Glasgow and beyond. This rich and historical Scottish landscape is where Fairfull started work on Picking Petals, heading north to write alongside the band or in solitude. Likewise, the songwriter was insistent that acclaimed alt-pop producer Yves Rothman experience her stomping ground rather than sundrenched LA, hunkering down in Mogwai’s Castle of Doom studios, a Glasgow townhouse transformed into a citadel of sound. Heartfelt connections weave through the record like a homespun friendship bracelet. In the baroque pop-infused ‘Big Romance’, The Last Dinner Party frontwoman Abigail Morris appears on vocal duties, having been adamant the song should make the record at a time when Fairfull was unsure. The album arrives ahead of Lucia's biggest headline gig to date, a hometown show at the legendary Barrowland in October 2026, alongside shows in Manchester and London. Before then, she appears at a select number of festivals throughout the spring and summer.