[Cover photo credit to Tatjana Ruegsegger]
London-based duo LuxJury will be releasing their debut album, Giving Up, on the 27th of March, 2026, via Bella Union. Fronted by singer/guitarist Nicole ‘Lux’ Fermie alongside drummer Howey Gill, LuxJury takes on Indie-Rock sounds and explores Fermie’s experiences in the years since the dissolution of her previous band and coming out as a queer woman.
Along with the announcement, LuxJury has also shared a live studio performance video of new single “Snacks (I Could Love You)”, taking a look at “rebound relationships.”
Fermie explains about her current songwriting:
I had lived the life of a musician on the breadline. I was dating the drummer in the band. We broke up. I realized I was queer, fell in love with a woman, and took a break from music for years because I felt like everything I’d written thus far had been completely disingenuous, because I had this whole other side of my life that I hadn’t lived. I came back to music with something to say.
On the surface, many of the songs on Giving Up are about romantic relationships, but they are also about “finding oneself, digging deep to excavate the true meaning of one’s identity.” These are songs “specifically about how queer people love, and how that can be a mirror for the rest of the world.”
Fermie says about new single “I Could Love You”:
It was the first time that I ever embodied a side of myself that was not very good, that I wasn’t proud of. I always talk about how women are caring, but “I Could Love You” is about how women can be cruel—I had fallen out of love and didn’t know how to get out of it and was getting really embittered and resentful of the person who was making me feel responsible for them. I discovered that I had that in me, which is something I’d have never experienced and didn’t like, so I wrote about it.
Honestly, most of this album is me getting over my first queer relationship. There’s no lie about it. I feel like a teenager: it should be an angsty album, but it came out the way it did, hopefully, because I’m a bit older.
