Dawes & Lucius

Dawes & Lucius performing together as one band.

Acclaimed indie band Lucius has been turning heads since the start thanks to their irrepressibly catchy songs, explosive harmonies, and bold aesthetic. Formed by Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig, the Los Angeles group got rolling with their 2013 debut album Wildewoman — featuring long-standing hits like “Two of Us on the Run”. Rolling Stone hailed the record for “an updated ’60s girl-group sound at once fresh and thrilling”. Lucius shifted towards a folk rock sound with 2016’s Good Grief before taking a break from the studio to join Roger Waters on his Us + Them Tour in 2017-18. Lucius returned to the studio in 2022 with the dance-ready collection Second Nature, which features singles “Next to Normal”, one of NPR Music’s top songs of the year and “Dance Around It” the pulsing song with Sheryl Crow and Brandi Carlile. In addition to their own work, the GRAMMY-nominated Wolfe and Laessig are singers in demand: their voices have graced songs by a host of other artists, including Carlile, The War on Drugs, John Legend, Harry Styles, Jeff Tweedy and Ozzy Osbourne.

We wanted a musical drama.
An ensemble cast, with linked arms, kicking highly.

A transcription of a band meeting we haven’t even had yet…

A spotlight on a spotlight:
This one goes out to all the solos BETWEEN the solos.
To the Ands of 3… AND 4.

8 Legs and 8 arms, in a room, stretching deeper than they ever knew they could.
The Intros have Outros.
The Outros have Bridges.

Don’t like the Jam? ……. Just wait five minutes.

Like turtle doves in a snow storm, Fate has brought us together again with Producer and long time collaborator Jonathon Wilson. And for this, we are forever grateful.

our 8th studio record to date. Unless you don’t count the first seven, then this would be our DEBUT RECORD!

We left quite a mess out there, and if each person reading this picks up just one piece of trash on their way out…

Then we’ll leave this planet more beautiful than the day we found it

– Dawes