{"id":21089,"date":"2022-03-23T16:04:25","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T20:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=21089"},"modified":"2022-06-22T15:53:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T19:53:33","slug":"dancing-through-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/dancing-through-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing through Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23e3e3e3&amp;d=apr22_portland_magazine&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=56&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Lucius rolls into the State Theatre on April 30.<\/h4>\n<p>By Milena Calcagni<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">W<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ith their new album <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Second Nature<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (April 8, 2022) rising from the ashes of the pandemic, <\/span><strong>Holly Laessig<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of <\/span><strong>Lucius<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> shares a few silver-lining secrets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s kept your heart pounding during lockdown?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Writing a song starts with writing a letter to yourself so you can look at it, let it go, and make something joyous out of it. After being in quarantine so long, we knew our listeners might need that sense of release and escape too. 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