Buckaroo Banzaï’s Post-Punk Single “Lost” Urges the Listener to Escape Self-Imposed Isolation and Finding Meaning in Community

Buckaroo Banzaï, photo courtesy the artists

French post-punk band Buckaroo Banzaï released its new EP Big Trouble in Little China on October 15, 2025 thus referencing two of the great B-movies of the 1980s. The single “Lost” is infused with fuzz tone in the urgent intro that gives way to more clean tones in the middle, more introspective section as the vocals further contemplate feeling lost in isolation. The video is like a first person game going through a tunnel of images including those of records and going through the center, into eyes, into the mouth of an orangutan, images of a cathedral, an old camera, bridges and myriad of other impossible to travel through landscapes in real life but not unreachable through art and the imagination. The song seems to also contemplate finding meaning in community even though recent years have meant people have become more atomized in their everyday lives by the pandemic era and demands of economy and the ways we’ve been encouraged to relate to one another virtually. The song concludes with a spirited bit that resists the inertia of disconnection from one’s fellow humans. Musically its reminiscent of both early deathrock and International Noise Conspiracy. Watch the video for “Lost” on YouTube and follow Buckaroo Banzaï at the links below.