Lecx Stacy, the first-generation Filipino-American artist from San Diego now based in Los Angeles, releases his new single “Safe In Your Hands, I Clasp,” a track he describes as “a soundtrack to my anxieties. It’s about clinging to idealized versions of life and love for comfort, only to feel that comfort slip further away and swallowed by noise and distortion.” The song opens with plucky acoustic guitar, subtle strings, and breathy ethereal vocals before layered textures build into a swell of distortion and density, then pull back just as quickly into something stripped and bare. That push and pull is the whole point.
The single sits alongside recent releases “Winter, A Wilted Flower” and “With You, I’d Be Closer to God,” continuing Stacy’s exploration of emotional extremes through dynamic shifts in sound and structure. His music draws from emo-folk, folktronica, noise, and ambient textures, rooted in a personal history that runs from beat-making sessions with his older brother to his father’s stories of Filipino folkhouses where men sang John Denver after long nights of drinking. Listeners are responding to the track as one of his most emotionally precise releases yet, intimate and overwhelming in equal measure.
Stacy has toured alongside Eartheater, Jean Dawson, and Sega Bodega, and his live performances carry the same devotional intensity as his recordings. “Safe In Your Hands, I Clasp” is out now.