LUCY (Cooper B. Handy)

It is hard to know Lucy’s music without feeling you know it and him well; it hardly takes one song to have at least some understanding of him and what he represents. This can only be partly credited to his unique production and word-smithing—lyrics that spin the sense out of common sense, sounds that clip and distort to such extremes that truly-new textures and gestures can emerge. It’s a playful mix of romanticism and absurdity that is uniquely nestled in our time: “why I do what I do for myself theres no reason” (2016), “too smart to argue or to judge, you know me, I only want to love” (2016), “match made in heaven, strike anywhere match” (2017), “some people make choices and never come back” (2019). With Lucy, entertaining the absurd means doing so while smiling & devoted to the idea of taking nothing from on high. good luck tonight my viewers love, unity, communication, yeah?