Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys (za), Junokill

In the organizer's words:

art pop | tender noise | post punk | minimal wave | astropunk

Berlin-based Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys, have captivated audiences across Europe with their atmospheric and intense performances. Led by South African-born artist Lucy Kruger (guitar and vocals), the band features Liú Mottes (guitar), Jean-Louise Parker (viola and vocals), Gidon Carmel (drums). Their music is both intimate and angular-droning and dream-like in moments, driving, direct, and on the edge of desperation in others. Caringly confrontational.

JUNOKILL is pure and peculiarly unruly. With dazzling force and against all the rules of a conventional pop consensus, JUNOKILL establishes its own sound world: ASTROPUNK - a space that invites you to dive in, let off steam and experiment. From a potpourri of influences, Junokill serves up a dense sound with depth and depth. With multi-layered voices, swirling synthesizers, lush guitars, sighing strings and airy drums, Junokill creates a fantastically fluid cosmos in which special intimacy and a gentle rebellion against the norm are celebrated. Junokill invites you to a furious dance between realities and dreamy utopias.

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Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys

Their latest album, A Human Home, released on May 31st, 2024, is a lo-fi, intimate collection exploring themes of belonging and home. The album features a mix of accidental and deliberate remote collaborations, capturing a unique, personal, yet universally resonant moment. Before this, Heaving-a vivid and visceral compilation-was released in April 2023 under Unique Records (EU) and Metropolis Records (USA). Between 2019 and 2024, Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys released 5 studio albums: A Human Home (2024), Heaving (2023), Teen Tapes (for performing your own stunts) (2022), Transit Tapes (for women who move furniture around) (2021), Sleeping Tapes for Some Girls (2019). These albums have been showcased across Europe, with the band performing at festivals such as Orange Blossom Special, In-Music, Roadburn, Grauzone, Reeperbahn, Wave-Gotik-Treffen, New Colossus Festival, Fusion Festival, Left of The Dial, Synästhesie, to name a few.

"South African-born Kruger is the real deal, with enough attitude and drama for a few bands... She possesses a death stare that looks both through you and into your soul at the same time" - Brooklyn Vegan

"It's like Americana for goths. Lucy makes eye contact with us and sings narrative songs. A spell. It is not until closing number "Burning building" that we are let go. Awesome" - 3voor12

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Junokill

In nine songs, MIMICRY tells of coping with chaos, of being at home in music as a point of rest, of being connected and related, of care and transience, phantasms and reveries, of deepest anger and sadness, of pleasure and lust as an act of resistance, of devotion and passion, of inner turmoil and fear, of nothingness and delusion. Mimicry is the art and at the same time the doom of adaptation, identification with matter and deception in order to survive. The album is a manifesto of a queerfeminist existence and an ode to the instruments and many influences that make it sound.

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