Photo: Dune Baydoun

Powerhouse art-punk, cello-core, Lung, consists of Kate Wakefield, a classically trained opera singer and cellist, and drummer Daisy Caplan, formerly the bassist of Foxy Shazam. Fierce, ethereal, and heavy as hell, Lung rocks with the intensity of early grunge, layered with sinister undertones. Described as "loud, dissonant, innovative, and fearless" (Fair Shakes and Just Dessert). Wakefield runs her cello through distortion pedals and big amps, and Caplan pounds out earthquaking beats on epic horn-shaped, vintage drums. A relentless touring machine, the duo has played over 800 shows across North America and Europe, on bills with Brainiac, Screaming Females, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Big Business and so many more.

Lung at The Earl supporting Brainiac. Photo: Mike White

Lung at The Earl supporting Brainiac. Photo: Mike White

“The band’s sound crosses many styles and could be better described by feelings rather than genres. Metal and classical music may not seem like a natural pairing, but singer Kate Wakefield’s haunting and professionally trained operatic voice floats above her fervent cello playing alongside Daisy Caplan’s intense and hypnotic drumming.”
— Katie Pinter, WOUB Public Radio

Photo: Mike white

Photo: Dazed Shots Photography

“Atop drummer Daisy Caplan’s cyclonic and atmospheric percussion backdrop, singer/cellist Kate Wakefield evokes a whirl of energy and emotion, creating varying textures on her cello, which often rocks harder than an army of distorted guitars. Wakefield’s dynamic vocals are equally multidimensional, alternately rising with a hair-raising fervor and slinking with a more delicate but no less intent and intense purr.”
— Mike Breen, CityBeat

Daisy Caplan of Lung at The Parish Austin 2024. Photo: Trevor Keig

Kate Wakefield of Lung at The Parish Austin 2024. Photo: Trevor Keig

“The resulting music is fascinating, with both heavenly and evil vocals and powerful grunge emanating from the cello. The tracks are amazing post-grunge mixed with a dose of the avant garde. ”
— Paul Silver, Jersey Beat

Lung's fourth full-length album “Let It Be Gone” was recorded and mixed by Mike Montgomery. Available on vinyl via Romanus Records.

Lung ‘Let It Be Gone’. Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Mike Montgomery. Album art by Rachelle Caplan

The band’s newest album: Let It Be Gone was written on the road, at a time when Lung was touring extensively, averaging 200 shows per year. This lively pace led Audiofemme to name them the hardest working DIY touring band of 2019. The album’s theme is a general movement away from the idea of home as a place and more of the road itself as a home wherever you are (or aren't) at a given time. This album is a direct portraiture of our collective experiences pre-pandemic and so much has happened in the intervening three years that it's become kind of an instant time capsule. It's a historical document of a time period we haven't quite left, but still seems like a different world. It's like reading a novel with eerie parallels to your own life.

“There simply are so few other bands currently making music at this level, with this emotional resonance and with such innovation and poise. Lung is in a class all by themselves and this album is the just the latest in a string of incredible releases from them. It is expressive, explosive, and an exceptionally powerful gift to the world.”
— Kate Hoos, Full Time Aesthetic
Lung Come Clean Right Now

Lung ‘Come Clean Right Now’. Recorded and mixed by John Hoffman. Mastered by Mike Montgomery, Album photo and design by Rachelle Caplan.

“Lung is the oddest couple since Oscar Madison and Felix Unger. Former Foxy Shazam bassist-turned-drum-beast Daisy Caplan and electric-cellist-to-the-stars Kate Wakefield team up to either A) slap on spandex onesies and fight crime in Metropolis or B) comprise a completely unexpected musical duo that upends genre expectations and pummels Grungy Indie Rock into new and unclassifiable shapes. Come Clean Right Now is Lung’s third and best album so far, a brilliantly dark document of feral intensity and agitated ferocity. “Sugar Pill” and “Landlocked” suggest Tony Iommi teaching a Nirvana class at Julliard, while the title track is the melodic cacophony of a Classical Punk chamber duo being menaced by murder hornets. Lung doesn’t try to fit in — they pry their way in with a velvet crowbar.”
— Brian Baker, CityBeat Cincinnati

Photo: Rachelle Caplan