Lucy Dacus – No Thank You, I Love You, Goodbye
This song has been living in Lucy Dacus’s live sets for nine year and finally getting an official studio recording today.
“No Thank You, I Love You, Goodbye” dates back to the “No Burden” era, an unreleased rarity that surfaced occasionally as an encore, most recently at the Sylvee in Madison and again as recently as July. Dacus announced the release herself on Instagram, calling it “surprise, out tonight, long overdue.” The new studio version was recorded with fellow Richmond collaborators, producer Adrian Olsen and guitarist Alan Good Parker, and arrives alongside news of a 10th anniversary reissue of “No Burden” itself, due December 4 on vinyl.
“No Burden” first came out in 2016 through Richmond’s EggHunt Records, recorded in Nashville with Jacob Blizard and producer Collin Pastore in roughly a single marathon day, before Matador Records reissued it later that year. It’s the album that introduced Dacus through songs like “I Don’t Wanna Be Funny Anymore” and “Strange Torpedo,” Southern-tinted punk textures wrapped around songwriting that could be intimate, funny and uncomfortably self-examining all at once. She’s said the whole thing almost started as a DIY Bandcamp release with Blizard before the band decided to make a proper studio recording instead.
The song itself is built around a relationship that scared her: nightmare violence bleeding into waking life, well-meaning but useless advice from a doctor, someone reckless behind the wheel while she kept climbing back in the car anyway. It ends with her drawing the line clean and simple, which is basically the main focus of the title.
