Credit: Jamie MacMillan
Words: Sam Geary
Lacuna Common return with a new 2020 single, ‘Learn to Feel’, out this week, which sees the Oxford quartet take on toxic masculinity.
The resounding, punchy track "is a song about seeing the men around our hometown feel like they need to compete with each other to be this ‘alpha male’ character," explains frontman Alfie Franks. "It’s a pack mentality and a poison and it frustrates me. I don’t really like to write quote-unquote ‘political’ songs, but I felt like I needed to put this sentiment across. We’re not ‘the political band or ‘the band that doesn’t want to be the political band’ - there’s enough of both knocking around at the moment. We just write about what’s in front of us, good or bad.”
Try it.
Live dates
FEBRUARY
02 Rossi Bar, Brighton
12 The Wheatsheaf, Oxford
MARCH
06 Lion Coffee & Records (acoustic)
26 The Exchange, Bristol
APRIL
17 Castle Hotel, Manchester
24 The Finsbury, London
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