Lucia & The Best Boys return with new single, "Lonely Girl", featuring CHVRCHES’ Lauren Mayberry

"Lonely Boy" follows Lucia & The Best Boys' debut album Burning Castles, released in 2023, and sees vocalist Lucia Fairfull exploring her connection to rural Scotland in collaboration with Lauren Mayberry, vocalist and percussionist of Scottish synth-pop band, CHVRCHES.

The song was written by Fairfull, alongside Best Boys Haydn Park-Patterson and Calum Stewart, with Yves Rothman (Blondshell, Girlpool, Courtney Love, Kim Gordon) leading on production. The track also arrives alongside a music video directed by Eubha Akilade.

Discussing the new single, Fairfull explains: “Lonely Girl is a song about finding a sense of belonging in both people and place,” explains Lucia. “I grew up in a small rural village in Scotland and as a teen who wanted to make music, I felt isolated in many ways and felt like I needed to reach far beyond my every-day surroundings for inspiration. But by the passing of time, strengthening my connection with the land and finding those rare friendships that really uplift, nurture and allow you to be yourself, I have never felt more at home.

“When we started to record the song with Yves it became very apparent that Lauren’s voice belonged on this song, not only because it felt like a dreamy pairing but because I knew that if anyone was going to understand the meaning of this song that is so deep routed in where I come from, it would be Lauren.”

Speaking on the collaboration, Mayberry adds: “It feels like Lucia and I really should have crossed paths before now but somehow it didn’t happen until the end of last year. We were introduced by our mutual friend Yves - an incredible person and the producer she’s been working with. He mentioned having been in Glasgow working with a Scottish artist which made my ears perk up and I was happy to learn that it was Lucia & The Best Boys, because I love her, and could see his approach really working with her style.

"It’s been so exciting to watch her get recognition in the Scottish and wider British music scene in the last few years. Lucia has such a singular vision and really knows what she wants to create, and that’s a really inspiring energy to be around. Plus for once I didn’t have to alter my accent to blend in with another singer -- our celtic vowel sounds were perfectly aligned.”