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LuxJury is the project of singer and guitarist Nicole "Lux" Fermie and drummer Howey Gill. Giving Up sees the pair explore Fermie's experiences after quitting her previous band and coming out as a queer woman. “I was dating the drummer in the band. We broke up. I realized I was queer, fell in love with a woman, and took a break from music for years because I felt like everything I'd written thus far had been completely disingenuous, because I had this whole other side of my life that I hadn't lived. I came back to music with something to say," Fermie explains.
Speaking on the upcoming album, she continues: “The underlying current on this album is definitely what it's like to have relationships with an undertone of social precarity. Nothing is scripted. Nothing is written. There's a weird trust system that isn't anything close to what I’d experienced in heterosexual relationships. And furthermore, there’s just something about getting off the conveyor belt, so to speak.
"Society wants to support you if you make money, have babies and keep propping up the economy, right? So there's that pressure, and once you come out and are okay with letting go of that, you're open to challenging everything. You're open to challenge the way that you have relationships with people in general—friendships, people you sleep with, people you don't sleep with. The biggest undercurrent on this album is that letting go of societal pressure."
The album announcement arrives with the release of lead single “Snacks (I Could Love You)”. Check out the band's live studio performance of the new track below:
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