The Daily Spin II

Lucy Dacus | Home Video

Welcome back to the Daily Spin. For the uninitiated, this is the series in which I review an album every day of 2025.

As was the case two years ago, my favorite song from each album can be found at the playlist linked here.

Album: Home Video (2021)

Artist: Lucy Dacus

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Deceptively sleek, Home Video calls back to the early aughts and the craze of a society that had everything on the wide world of the internet just a brief moment away - with a heavy focus on faith and its impacts on youth at the time, it’s a record close to my own heart - though I wasn’t raised particularly religious, I was never terribly distant from it, and the through-line impacts of a society enamored with the cross are intriguing as I grow older and ponder my own future.

Dacus is definitely at her best as part of a group - but she’s lucky, here, as the long list of collaborators and supporting actors give her a strength that allows a lot of her heavier punches to land where they otherwise may graze or miss entirely - and on a record that borders near pop more often than I would have suspected, it’s a welcome enhancement to ensure depth.

It’s a delightful examination of a time period that I remember fondly and exasperatedly at once, all the clarity of age paired with the youthful exuberance of old memories.

Rating: 7/10

Best Tracks: VBS

Worst Tracks: Partner in Crime