Consumer Guide Album

Lucy Dacus: Forever Is a Feeling [Geffen, 2025]
Come on—for Dacus, forever isn't just a feeling but a goal. Song after unfashionably sweet, unfailingly melodic, undeniably sincere song, she falls in something like love with partners and/or objects of desire who if they aren't all different people (and it's conceivable they're all just one) inspire different apercus and/or call up different memories. "You are doing the Lord's work every time you smile at me." "Clasping your necklace, zipping your dress/Hands on your waist, kissing your neck." "You may not be an angel, but you are my girl/You are my pack a day/You are my favorite place/You were my best friend before you were my . . . " "I'm thinking about breaking your heart and if I do I'll break mine too." "Now I'm knocking down your door 'cause I'm trying to make up for lost time." "This is bliss/This is hell." A−