Lucia & The Best Boys and The Last Dinner Party’s Abigail Morris Reconnect on New Single

A new single from Lucia & The Best Boys arrives with more shared history than the average feature credit suggests. ‘Big Romance’ is the third preview of Lucia Fairfull’s upcoming album ‘Picking Petals’, out 31 July via Communion Records, and it marks a reunion with Abigail Morris of The Last Dinner Party. Morris was once a member of The Best Boys. That tenure ended before either artist’s current chapter began, but the connection clearly held.

The song itself is a widescreen baroque-pop waltzer, and the collaboration came about because Morris pushed Fairfull to finish a track she had nearly abandoned. “Being able to share these experiences with other women who understand where you’re at, what you’re doing, it’s really empowering,” Fairfull said of the process. It is a sentiment that might scan as press-cycle courtesy if the record didn’t already feature a lead single built around another formidable guest, Lauren Mayberry.

‘Picking Petals’ lands this summer, and the live focus sharpens around a hometown headline at Glasgow’s Barrowland Ballroom on 23 October. A Manchester date at Band on the Wall follows on the 26th, with London’s Islington Academy closing the run on the 28th. Earlier festival stops at Isle of Wight and Wilderness sit further out on the calendar. There is no great conceptual leap to make here. An artist is stepping into bigger rooms with an album shaped by voices she has known across different stages of her career, and the result sounds less like a debut statement than a deliberate return.