[Cover photo credit to Claryn Chong]

Lava La Rue previously announced their debut album, Starface, out this Summer 2024 via Dirty Hit and have now revealed new single “Humanity”. Following an experience of losing a friendship to addiction, the song seeks out positivity. It conveys “a reminder not to give up on humanity, even when you feel humanity has given up on you.”

The single lands alongside a live video which features Lava La Rue’s first-ever performance of the track at Biig Piig’s Gaza Aid Benefit earlier this year, montaged with fan-submitted-home videos of what humanity looks like to them.

Lava La Rue says:

“This might be the most vulnerable I’ve ever been on a song. The verses follow a very literal experience about losing a friendship to addiction, but every time the chorus hits, it evolves into a response/reminder to not give up on humanity even when you feel like humanity has given up on you.  

It’s about cherishing the everyday moments/connections that let you know that there is just as much light as there is dark…and using those moments to restore your energy so you have the will to keep fighting for what you believe in.  

The most radical thing we can do right now is to keep giving a fuck. To keep pointing out all the good stuff amongst the bad. People on both sides try and make us feel futile by preaching about peace and love but if we don’t – who will? I guarantee the hope that “things can get better – how can I make this happen” will get us further that “it’s all fucked” The most radical thing is to keep loving.” 

Starface is a “conceptual psychedelic sci-fi romance album” centered around the narrative of “a gender-fluid musical space alien sent to planet Earth to study the reasons why humans are so self-destructive.”