Lonnie Gunn Returns With New Track Photocopy
Lonnie Gunn has returned with Photocopy, an anthemic, obsessive new single that offers the latest glimpse into her unfolding new era.
Written by Gunn, produced by Steve Ansell and mixed/mastered by Nathan Boddy, the track moves on a driving guitar riff and pulsing bass-line, pairing nostalgic grunge textures with the kind of sharp, emotionally exposed lyricism that has quickly become central to Gunn’s world.
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A Song About Fantasy Turning Sour
At its core, Photocopy examines the strange ache of being loved as an idea rather than as a person.
Lonnie shares: “Photocopy is a song about two people trapped in a cycle of mutual idealisation, and the constant fluctuation between being in love with a fantasy and feeling betrayed by a reality that can’t live up to it. Around the time I wrote Photocopy, I was in love with another artist, and we wrote songs about each other regularly”. She adds, “It felt like we were immortalising that love through our art. But, as the relationship collapsed, I realised they were more in love with the version of me in their songs than the living, breathing reality.”
With her signature knack for biting lyricism, she explores that push-and-pull over nostalgic grunge textures. “The chorus is like saying, “If you want that version of me, go ahead, you made her; she’s yours. But she’s not real, so you can’t touch her.” Ironically, I guess the song is about me idealising them back, and needing them so intensely that I wanted to write off everything just to be closer to an angel, or something like an angel.”
Bubblegum Grunge With Teeth
Following recent single Good Girls Go To Heaven, as well as previous releases Dog In A Hot Car, Lucky Girl and lovebite, Photocopy continues to sharpen Gunn’s self-described “bubblegum grunge” sound.
Her music sits somewhere between sugar-rush melody and jagged catharsis, drawing from the uncompromising emotional worlds of Fiona Apple, Karen O and Mitski, while nodding to the scrappy textures of Deerhunter, The Moldy Peaches and Elastica.
Building Momentum On Stage
Gunn recently appeared at The Great Escape in Brighton, performing packed-out shows at The Hope & Ruin for Platform B and on the Subcat stage at Horatio’s. She has also completed a support run with TTSSFU and marked a major milestone by opening for Kim Gordon at London’s O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire on 14th April.
Born in the US and now based in Brighton, Gunn is carving out a space that feels intimate, abrasive, playful and unsettling all at once. Her visual world of “fuzzy static heaven” mirrors the music itself: sweet at the edges, distorted at the centre, and always slightly uncanny.
2026 Live Dates
July 15th – EYOE Recommends at The Shacklewell Arms, London
September 4th – Brighton Psych Fest, Brighton
September 12th – Escape to the City, St. Albans
