Volume 2: The Safety
Left to right: Ben Wuflric, Amelia di Lucca. Credit: @thesafety__
Amelia di Lucca and Ben Wuflric locate themselves as floating in a dark sea of guitars, synthesizers, drums, and the occasional melodic sunbeam. After listening to songs such as End of the World, or Snow Song, the listener has no choice but to believe this to be the only possible habitat for the duo known as The Safety. In creating an eerie, beautiful, and wistful world within their music catalog, the duo started with the single Pyramids in 2024, a vulnerable yet honest story led by Di Lucca’s vocals. Prior to this release, The Safety had released a few songs, but ultimately allowed Pyramids to be their first song in their roster to create the universe in which their music would illustrate. “Pyramids is probably the strongest example, I feel, of what we are,” explains Wuflric. “It’s kind of vibey, but also it has a whole emotional angst thing to it. If you want to know what we are, just listen to Pyramids.”
Over the past years in creating the library of The Safety, the pair has honed in the process of creating a song as well as keeping consistency when releasing songs and their visual accompaniments. “For me, it’s kind of an intimate thing, writing a song. It is more of a solitary kind of thing. But for End of the World, that was more of a collaborative one,” says Di Lucca. “The backlog [of songs] is a lot of stuff I’ve written, you know, sitting alone at night doing my own thing, and same with Ben.” Wuflric further explains his perspective, “I’ll tell you the actual process; Amelia sits down and starts writing something amazing, wants to throw it away, and then I’m like, ‘Do not throw that away!’” As for Wulfric, songcrafting is a way to pull out emotions in the listener, whether or not those emotions are pleasant. “One Last Moment is the first song that is actually the way I really like to write songs, which is basically just destroying people,” he illustrates. “I just want to break them down to that place that they’re terrified to go to, there’s gold there.” The two are amazingly in sync as each other’s counterparts, sharing responsibilities in songwriting and instrumental construction, resulting in a very consistently strong flow of music and visuals.
The Safety is more than just a name they release music under, but an overarching feeling and concept that any person is akin to, whether they realize it or not. “Our nature wants us to sit in a room and do nothing, just eat, survive, and continue the race,” explains Wuflric alongside Di Lucca, “And society too, being disconnected [from emotion].” There is a safety that is brought upon us at a young age, not solely physical safety but safety within emotions and the norms of society. The duo’s musical compilation illustrates an in-between cocoon-like stage of fear of the outside world and the feelings that come along with it, and a desire to find acceptance in uncomfortability. Oftentimes, the feelings that their existential lyrics and looming instrumentals bring to the surface are uneasy but simultaneously poignant.
Looking into the ongoing development of The Safety’s reality, there is still so much to be uncovered through their visual stories and song releases. Immersing themselves into their intricate web of lyrics, synths, pure poetry, guitar chords, and apocalyptic storytelling, is the best and only way to embrace the macrocosm of The Safety.
Featured below is their newest music video. Click the icons below it to explore more of The Safety!
