Lecx Stacy returns with his new single, “Safe In Your Hands, I Clasp,” a track that feels incredibly honest and personal. The Los Angeles-based artist, a first-generation Filipino American originally from San Diego, has long blurred the lines between folk intimacy and textured, experimental production. With his new single, he leans fully into that musical amalgamation, using sound to mirror the instability he writes about in his lyrics. 

The songwriter shares how the song is “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 intro is simple, built around raw acoustic guitar, faint strings and soft, breathy vocals that feel exposed and vulnerable. Then slowly, the arrangement expands, as layers stack up, distortion creeps in, and the track swells into something heavier and more consuming before dropping back down again. This ebb and flow mimics the emotional dance between comfort and chaos.

The new single follows the release of his previous tracks, “Winter, A Wilted Flower” and “With You, I’d Be Closer to God,” working up towards his upcoming album, which is said to delve into more of the artists’ lived experiences with a heavy focus on stories of “folkhouses” in the Philippines that his father used to reminisce about. With every track, Stacy offers something new, delivering a wide range of sounds, textures and lyrical themes that allows everyone to connect with at some point. However, there is one thing that remains consistent throughout them all, and that is his ability to create music which oozes emotion, depth and a maturity that isn’t so easy to come across.