Alex Lahey Releases New Single “Sucker for Punishment,” Announces Tour

Melbourne-based songwriter Alex Lahey release a new track Monday, “Sucker for Punishment,” which follows her sophomore album, 2019’s The Best of Luck Club. Lahey wrote her new song “from the perspective of the deluded,” a press release explains, using “exasperated vocals [that] are backed by buzzing guitar and a jaunty bass line.”

“We’re living in an era we’re the micro has become the macro,” says Lahey. “I don’t think there has ever been a time where our actions and attitudes as individuals have had such an impact on broader humanity and the planet. Whether it’s a ‘think about it later’ attitude towards climate change, the undemocratic consequences of sharing personal data to big business online, a lethargicness in the face of political engagement or the need to be validated as a worthwhile individual through obtaining arbitrary units of engagement on social media—we need to catch ourselves out before we suffer greater consequences.”

After Lahey’s international tour, she’ll return Stateside for a for a slew of tour dates along the West Coast, kicking off the run in San Diego on May 30 at Casbah. A full list of her tour dates are below, beneath the “Sucker for Punishment” lyric video.