Deadline Season by Lucy Liebe

LP Release: Nov 14, 2025

'Deadline Season' is the first solo album by Lucy Liebe. You might know her as a founding member of Bokoya or seen her live with douniah or Gianni Brezzo. Lucy plays drums, keys, flute, trumpet, guitar, bass, and sings. Deadline Season features AKA Kelzz, Coco Elane, garrrog, Giaa, Laíz, Pachakuti and Rosa Landers.

At this point, we usually share a Spotify or Apple Music link and encourage the reader to listen to the album on his or her favourite streaming platform. If you search the DSPs for Lucy’s 'Deadline Season', you won’t find it. If you want to hear her album you have to come to her shows, where she plays the new songs and sells it on vinyl. Most recently she played King Georg (Cologne), Überjazz Festival (Hamburg) or Jazz Montez (Frankfurt). If Lucy isn’t coming to your town, you can order the LP on Bandcamp or the MPM online store. Starting early December, you can also buy 'Deadline Season' at your local record store. Sometime later, we will make the album available on streaming services as well — but we’re not in a hurry.

'Deadline Season' came to life after Lucy moved from Cologne to Berlin. “I was new in Berlin,” she recalls. “I knew I didn’t want to keep doing the same things I was doing in Cologne, so I became really active, texting everyone, sending out folders with beats, trying to connect. I also applied for a bunch of jobs in research with queer organizations, but none of those worked out. What did work out, though, was an album funding – and I already had a lot of music in the making. Most of the songs came together from scratch during sessions with guests I just wanted to meet up with and create something new.”

Musically, 'Deadline Season' is all over the place, but always on point and 100% Lucy Liebe. “I like to call it alternative R&B. Maybe that’s just a 2025 way of saying neo-soul? My jazz influences are definitely still in there.”

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