Breakup records are hardly a new invention, but LEXA’s latest single “Baggage Claim” arrives with a perspective that feels both deeply personal and quietly radical. The Rainbow Honour ‘Musician of the Year’ winner and Sex Education star returns with a track that transforms heartbreak into something bigger: a reclaiming of sound, identity, and the messy humanity that makes both worth holding onto.
Released as the lead single from forthcoming EP A Guide to Heartbreak, the final chapter in her EP trilogy, “Baggage Claim” feels like a deliberate shift forward. Built around the emotional fallout of LEXA’s first breakup with another trans person, the track explores heartbreak not as a neat narrative arc but as something more complicated, contradictory, and difficult to untangle.
What makes the release particularly striking is the creative team behind it. “Baggage Claim” features entirely trans+ writing credits, co-written with SATCH and co-produced alongside Charlieeeee. Rather than presenting that as a headline alone, the track treats collaboration itself as part of the emotional language of the project — creating space for lived experience to shape not only the lyrics but the entire atmosphere surrounding them.
Sonically, LEXA’s ambitions feel just as expansive. Drawing inspiration from the indie-rock and Britpop records she grew up with while refusing to simply recreate them, “Baggage Claim” sits somewhere between dreamy pop immediacy and guitar-driven catharsis. There are flashes of the playful emotional honesty associated with 2000s indie, but filtered through a brighter, more fluid lens that feels distinctly her own. Think big hooks, restless guitars, and melodies that soften the edges without removing the emotional weight.
LEXA describes the track as a kind of reclamation — not only of heartbreak, but of a musical landscape she rarely saw herself reflected in growing up. Referencing the rise of AI-generated music and a renewed appetite for imperfection, she positions “Baggage Claim” as an argument for something less polished and more human: songs that leave room for contradiction, vulnerability, and emotional chaos.
That instinct extends beyond the music itself. Alongside the single release, LEXA is launching a non-profit merchandise campaign in partnership with Teemill to raise funds for Climate Live, continuing a pattern of advocacy that has seen her work alongside organisations including Changing Faces, Just Like Us, GoFundMe and Allsorts Youth.
With an audience already numbering well into six figures and the final instalment of her trilogy approaching later this year, LEXA is clearly entering a defining moment creatively. But “Baggage Claim” does not feel interested in grand declarations or polished resolutions. Instead, it finds its power in something more difficult and more compelling: letting heartbreak stay messy, loud, funny, unfinished — and turning that into something worth singing along to.
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