Lecx Stacy makes music that doesn’t sit still. The Los Angeles-based, first-generation Filipino American artist has released his new single “With You, I’d Be Closer to God,” and it’s the kind of track that shifts beneath you as you listen.
The song opens with finger-picked guitar, intimate and exposed, before unraveling into something far stranger. Electronic textures, glitching elements, and a fast, repetitive beat collide with emo melodies and dramatic lyricism, building a soundscape that’s volatile and cathartic in equal measure. Stacy describes it as equal parts Hawthorne Heights and Crystal Castles, and that tension holds throughout. Written after touring with Sega Bodega and Eartheater, the track channels a newfound Catholic devotion alongside a deep pull toward electronic dance music, and the collision between those two forces gives it real charge.
Where his previous single “Winter, A Wilted Flower” leaned into stillness, “With You, I’d Be Closer to God” pushes forward with urgency. Distortion, repetition, and pressure become tools for emotional release rather than obstacles to it. Stacy’s instinct has always been to process grief, longing, and belief through sound, a practice rooted in the beat-making equipment his older brother left behind after his passing.
The single is part of a larger body of work that draws on his father’s stories of Filipino “folkhouses,” bars where men sang American folk songs after long nights, and maps them onto Stacy’s own upbringing in Ramona, California. The result is music suspended between landscapes, generations, and identities, Americana filtered through Filipino ritual, emo-folk, folktronica, noise, and ambient texture.
Stacy has shared stages with Eartheater, Jean Dawson, and Sega Bodega. His live performances are tense, devotional, and unflinching, and they mirror exactly what his recordings are doing.