ST. LUCIA SHARES NEW LP FATA MORGANA: DUSK + ANNOUNCES SPRING 2026 HEADLINE TOUR

Today, NYC-based husband-and-wife duo St. Lucia (Jean-Philip Grobler & Patti Beranek) release Fata Morgana: Dusk, the second installment of their expansive double album Fata Morgana, out now via Nettwerk. Alongside today’s album release, St. Lucia announces their Spring 2026 North American headline tour, with stops across the East and West coasts. For the first time ever, St. Lucia will perform a special 2-set show every night, with no opening act.

For tickets, please visit https://www.stlucianewyork.com.

Serving as a vibrant counterpoint to this year’s earlier release Fata Morgana: Dawn, the new album embraces St. Lucia’s signature pop and electronic sensibilities while continuing their rich exploration of sound, nostalgia, and emotional depth. Mixed by longtime collaborator Chris Zane (Jack Antonoff, Passion Pit, The Walkmen), Dusk captures the duo at a new creative high. While Dawn leaned heavily into vintage rock, psychedelia, and experimental textures, Dusk lets St. Lucia’s pop instincts shine—pairing infectious rhythms and radiant synth-driven elements with their distinct sense of atmosphere and craft. Together, the two halves of Fata Morgana offer a full-spectrum portrait of the duo’s artistic identity: danceable yet introspective, digitally-infused yet deeply human.

The album arrives alongside the shimmering focus track “Summer Nights,” a longtime vault favorite finally making its way into the world. Jean-Philip Grobler shares, “‘Summer Nights’ is a song I wrote kinda as a silly songwriting exercise… I forced myself to start and finish a song every day for a few weeks. Years later I listened back and couldn’t help but smile from ear to ear. It felt simple, refreshing, and unpretentious, especially in the context of everything else I was working on at the time. The lyrics are literally a recounting of when Patti and I met in 2002 in Liverpool. It wasn’t exactly summer—more like early fall—but somehow ‘summer nights’ worked in the lyrics, so I kept it.”

On the “Summer Nights” video music, Grobler shares,
“We filmed the video for ‘Summer Nights’ on the same night as the video for ‘Lights Off’ in a forest just outside of Zürich, Switzerland where some of Patti’s family live. It was an idea that we came up with with our friend Xander Ferreira (who creative directed and directed our visuals) of me & Patti dancing in a forest in the light of a car’s headlights. A really simple concept really, and initially it was meant to only be a visualizer without any singing in it, but when we started doing it we quickly realized that it could be a full music video. And so we performed the song a few times right at the end of daylight, and you can see the light fading throughout the various takes. It was truly just Patti & me having a bit of fun and perhaps being a little cringe with a little bit of choreography mostly just in the moment.”

Reflecting on the completion of the full double album, St. Lucia adds: “It feels surreal to be releasing the entirety of ‘Fata Morgana’ after so many years of work. Both ‘Dawn’ and ‘Dusk’ are their own time capsules—snapshots of different periods, influences, and evolutions. We grew, we experimented, we pushed ourselves, and we stayed true to our muse. Whether we achieved what we set out to do, who can say? What we do know is that this is the most honest and inspired music we could make. We hope listeners find the journey rewarding if they commit to experiencing both halves.”

The release of Fata Morgana: Dusk follows a string of standout singles that further point to the album’s dynamic range. Singles included, “People Change,” a luminous fusion of disco pulse and emotional introspection and “Lights Off,” a ‘90s breakbeat–infused anthem exploring carnal tension, In addition, “Giving It Up,” a hypnotic, full-band dance track reminiscent of Daft Punk’s “One More Time” and “Crimes of Passion,” which was co-written with Aly & AJ and featuring vocals from both Grobler and Beranek, drawing from South African Shangaan Disco, Kwaito, and early ’90s rave.

St. Lucia will celebrate the release of Fata Morgana: Dusk with a special pop-up event in NYC on December 9 at the Sabah Housein Noho, featuring live performances, exclusive merch, and more. RSVP HERE: https://forms.gle/mMZT9qUs95MgSY43A

LISTEN TO FATA MORGANA: DUSK LP:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU-cCv1rojc

WATCH + SHARE “SUMMER NIGHTS” MUSIC VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoVHdUou5ng

“Two Sets, No Opener” TOUR DATES:
 March 12, 2026 — Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
 March 13, 2026 — Jersey City, NJ @ White Eagle Hall
 March 14, 2026 — Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel
 March 15, 2026 — Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
May 14, 2026 — San Diego, CA @ Music Box
 May 15, 2026 — Los Angeles, CA @ Fonda
 May 16, 2026 — Sacramento, CA @ Ace of Spades
 May 17, 2026 — San Francisco, CA @ August Hall
 May 19, 2026 — Seattle, WA @ Showbox
 May 20, 2026 — Portland, OR @ Revolution