Keaton Henson joins forces with Julia Steiner on new track, "Lazy Magician"
Keaton Henson has returned with the brand new single, "Lazy Magician", which was co-written with Ratboys’ Julia Steiner.
Speaking on the single, Henson explains: “Julia’s voice is so evocative of that sound to me, it reminds me of when I first heard Rilo Kiley. She has a lot of the suburban magic-realism of the American bands I loved back then...I wrote the guitar parts and first lines to the drum machine and we both sort of just free-wrote the rest. Allowing our subconscious to form the narrative. I like that it’s almost like these two lonely souls singing next to each other, but sometimes over each other, like we’re so lost in our own self-reflection we’re unaware we’re in a duet.”
“Prior to being a folk thing I played in hardcore and emo bands,” he shares. “It’s definitely pulling from the things I listened to when I was young, but they’re being spat out through the lens of me and my career now. It’s a weird ‘me’ version of that stuff musically.”
"Lazy Magician" marks his first new material since 2024’s instrumental album, Somnambulant Cycles.
"Lazy Magician" is out now.
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