Lazy Queen's Apocalipstick (For August) is a song about coming to terms with one's identity and fighting for everyone's right to choose who they are

Lazy Queen's Apocalipstick (For August) is a song about coming to terms with one's identity and fighting for everyone's right to choose who they are. The single is released May 2nd via Icons Creating Evil Art

The single is part of an upcoming mixtape with new recordings of early material. Mixtape: Lost, Never To Be Seen Again vol. 1

Lazy Queen has had widespread support from i.e. KERRANG, CLASH, Rock Sound, and several spins from Jack Saunders over at BBC Radio 1. They toured UK twice after the pandemic and can't wait to be back. Lazy Queen's music is immediate, it’s urgent, it impatiently demands your attention. They now follow up their EPs A Human Reaction (2022) and Growing Pains (2023) with a new album in 2026 on Icons Creating Evil Art. While we wait we get some new recordings of early material on Mixtape: Lost, Never To Be Seen Again vol. 1 , released May 30th.

First out was the single Unemployed, Uninspired a couple of weeks ago, and now they release Apocalipstick (For August) on May 2nd. Founding member and vocalist Henrik García Søberg (they/them) tell us the story about the single:

- "Apocalipstick is a track I needed in 2018, exactly as I wrote it in 2018. I needed to fight my way through coming to terms with my identity and coming out as non-binary - a fight for my right to exist in a way that is true to myself. I don’t need the track in the same way at this point in my life. My gender identity is a part of me that feels really comfortable and familiar. Revisiting this song I found that it represents something different in my life at this stage. Now I need it for the struggle with feeling like I owe a certain kind of expression of that identity in public. It’s also a way to love and honour that younger version of me; to thank them for going to bat for me like that, because I wouldn’t have gotten to feel so comfortable in my own skin if they hadn’t. Next year I’ll probably need this track in a whole new way. My point is, as with anything, what this track means to me keeps evolving, and that’s not really important to anyone but me.

What is important is what's happening in politics and societal discourse with regard to limiting rights and creating hostile environments for trans people. What is important are the rates of homelessness and suicide among queer youth in Norway. What is important is the lives of anyone questioning their gender identity, their fight, their courage, their pain. Especially here in Norway, it can feel like transphobia, homophobia, bigotry, are things that just don’t happen here. But really, the only thing that's not happening is us being willing to acknowledge and face our society’s shortcomings. This song isn’t to remind society that there’s still a fight to be had; it’s for the people who are painfully aware of that, because they live it. It is a song of recognition. A declaration that community can be found here. It is something to borrow fierceness from.

This song is for those who need it. And this song is for August."

A couple of years back Lazy Queen entered the Norwegian music scene as a blast of fresh air, making the move from New York, where Colombian-Norwegian Henrik García Søberg founded the band. Fast forward to now, the Oslo-based band have embraced the new decade with an ever-evolving attitude of acceptance, perseverance and survival, creating an effervescent soundtrack along their journey. With an instinctive ear for melody and a uniquely intuitive sense of identity, Lazy Queen effortlessly weaves harmonic and discordant elements together that transform into a rich soundscape of bouncy yet jagged poignancy when the band comes together to complete the jigsaw puzzle of each track. Like CLASH puts it, “their penchant for bouncy, punk-infused electro-pop allows them to deliver poignancy with a sprinkle of sugar”. It’s immediate. It’s urgent. It impatiently demands your attention.

It’s no surprise then that Lazy Queen’s ingenuity has been praised by fans and music outlets all over the world. Lazy Queen have four storming EPs under their belt; 2019’s “A Sigh So Deep”, 2021’s “Get Home Or Die Trying”, 2022's “A Human Reaction” and 2023's “Growing Pains” - the latter two released on Swedish tastemaker label Icons Creating Evil Art. Several singles receiving spins from Norway’s own P3, UK’s BBC Introducing Networks as well as BBC Radio 1’s Future Alternative show with Jack Saunders, prompting the following response "This band feels like such a rare discovery...it doesn't feel like a carbon copy, it doesn't feel like they're trying to be anyone else but themselves”. The band has received huge praise across the board with press from Kerrang! to CLASH, Rolling Stone France to Rock Sound, Visions DE to Louder Than War.

On top of this, Lazy Queen have lauded across digital streaming platforms, recognised by Spotify playlists: Fresh Finds Global, New Music Friday Norway, The Punk List, All New Rock, 100% Rock, Rock idag and Rock ei ole kuollut and many more, as well as Apple Music’s New Music Daily, The New Rock and Flesh Blood.