Lancey Foux Finds The Other Side Of Success On ‘THE TIME OF OUR LIVES’

Lancey Foux closes his twenties with THE TIME OF OUR LIVES, a 21-track album that moves from celebration into the pressure, isolation and uncertainty beneath visible success.

Lancey Foux closes his twenties with THE TIME OF OUR LIVES, a 21-track album that starts from a place of celebration before turning towards the pressure, isolation and doubt beneath it.

Released through Human Re Sources and RCA Records, the album follows singles including ‘BODY’, ‘ROCKSTAR RIDER’, ‘ALL THE TIME’ and ‘CHANGE YOUR MIND’. It arrives as the final release of Lancey’s twenties, closing a period that has seen his sound shift repeatedly without settling into one fixed lane.

The title suggests a victory lap. Lancey’s description is less tidy.

“It starts energetic,” says Lancey. “Then somewhere it gets dark and distorted. That's the reality of how I feel sometimes. Even when everything looks exciting, there's always another side to it.”

That other side sits at the centre of how Lancey describes the record. Trap, alternative R&B, dance music and Afro-influenced rhythms sit around questions of freedom, loneliness and expectation, with the album repeatedly returning to the gap between visible success and actually feeling settled.

Finessekid appears on ‘TO THE MONEY’, while producers including snypes and Vuko work alongside Lancey himself. For all the size of the record, its focus keeps turning inward rather than treating success as a straightforward endpoint.

That refusal of a clean conclusion also fits an artist who has spent much of his career moving away from whatever definition starts to stick.

“People will project onto me what they want me to be,” Lancey notes. “I think that's what I'm running away from all the time. When everyone turns one way, I look to go in a whole new direction altogether.”

THE TIME OF OUR LIVES does not present the end of his twenties as a simple celebration. It holds onto the rush, but makes space for everything underneath it too.

It is a less comfortable ending, and a far more revealing one.