Album Review: Forever Is A Feeling by Lucy Dacus

Memory is one of the constant themes in Lucy Dacus' work. Her sophomore album framed her as the titular historian, a chronicler of lives and stories in song. Similarly, 2021's Home Video zoomed in close to Dacus' childhood, with each song playing out as a touching vignette of Dacus' formative years. Though the memories of these moments fracture, Dacus immortalizes them in her songs.

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If you’re having withdrawal symptoms while waiting for the inevitable second Boygenius album, one third of the supergroup has just the record for you Lucy Dacus‘ life has changed considerably since her last album, 2021’s Home Video. She’s now arguably better known as one third of ‘indie-folk supergroup’ Boygenius with Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker, with the trio winning Grammys and filling arenas. She’s also recently confirmed that she’s now in a relationship with Baker.

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This is Lucy Dacus's first album following the meteoric rise of the festival-headlining, Grammy-winning juggernaut boygenius, of which she is one third alongside Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker. It's hard to imagine she'll be playing venues like the Voodoo Rooms again anytime soon. This brings with it a lot more attention and could understandably unnerve someone whose music is riddled with indecision and anxiety.

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Thanks in no small part to the crossover appeal of supergroup Boygenius, Dacus has gone from critical darling to full-fledged star, in the process playing to exponentially larger crowds, dancing uncomfortably with Tim Chalamet on SNL, and making the jump to major label Geffen. This being an age of parasocial celebrity fandom, much of the journalistic coverage of Dacus' most talked-about full length to date has surrounded its subject matter: the artist's new(ly hard launched) relationship with Boygenius bandmate Julien Baker. In such scenarios, the most obvious cultural touchstone is always going to be Fleetwood Mac.

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When Jensen McRae released a "pre-emptive cover" of what she imagined a new Phoebe Bridgers single would sound like in 2021, it was widely received in the spirit it was written: tongue-in-cheek parody, yes, but also a sincere love letter to a songwriter whose familiar lyrical tropes of getting high and heartbroken in shopping malls and other people's cars worked so well. Had McRae been instead tasked to send up the well-worn tropes and trademarks of a Lucy Dacus album instead, she could feasibly have written ‘Forever Is A Feeling’ - even if that title might have been considered a little on the nose. The big difference this time is that we find the artist in love with her boygenius collaborator Julien Baker; presumably a significant factor in why the record achieves truly cartoonish levels of bliss at times, almost as if the music, production and lyrics were all run through a generative AI scan with one repeated prompt: make it swoon even harder.

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Lucy Dacus has a lot to thank boygenius for on her fourth studio album, 'Forever Is A Feeling'. The collaborative project alongside Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker - a trio who have known each other since the middle of the last decade - has not only propelled Lucy to a new-found level of international fame, but, as is evident throughout her new record's musings on love and relationships, has also seen her find love with bandmate Julien. It's no surprise that the pair have confirmed their relationship in the run-up to the album's release - a direct effort not only to end reams of online speculation, but also to celebrate the intricacies of a partnership laid out so bare.

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Lucy Dacus has a knack for taking small, seemingly insignificant details--a car ride, a drink at a bar, an adolescent make-out session--and magnifying them into moments of dramatic self-revelation. Despite its weighty title, though, the singer-songwriter's fourth studio album, Forever Is a Feeling, takes a less theatrical approach to the quotidian. It's her most subdued and intimate effort to date, an examination of how, when you're in love, everyday banalities can be alternately exhilarating and unbearable.

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