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Lucius on Their Self-Titled New Album and Being the Queens of Indie Harmony Singing: ‘Everyone’s Planting Roots and Having Babies… but We’re Still These Little Weirdos’
Lucius' Jess Wolfe and Holly Leassig talk about the band's new self-titled album, their unique harmonies as a duo, and balancing motherhood and music.
But dressing and bewigging themselves identically on stage is part of a design factor that lends subliminal strength to the beautiful illusion of their phenomenal tandem singing counting as blood harmony, even if it is only a serendipitous thing — or a harmonic convergence, of sorts — that they joined forces at Berklee 20 years ago. As Variety visits the two singers at Wolfe’s home in Northeast L.A. on the eve of their leaving for a tour, their respective babies are being attended to by friends of the family in the living room, clear evidence of how these are having some similar life experiences off-stage that echo the vocal and visual mirroring they engage in on-stage. Like, oftentimes I’ll take the lower part in the verse, for instance, and Holly will be on the top, and then we shift for the chorus to sort of add another layer of dynamic.
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