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Apr 8, 2025Those who invest in their fave singers’ personal lives will no doubt enjoy digging deep into the lyrics. Those who fell in love with the epics and wigouts of 2018’s Historian may find engaging moments on an album too cohesive for its own good.
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Mar 28, 2025It's to Dacus's credit that Forever is a Feeling still feels grounded in the same raw emotions and subtle details that have rightly made her a star. That said, there is a certain amount of playing it safe.
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Mar 27, 2025There are songs with beautiful melodies here, and they occur most often when Dacus leans towards Broadway for inspiration, a style that suits her deep voice: there is a distinct show tune air to Limerence, the most musically striking song here. More often, they settle for being perfectly nice rather than particularly arresting: nothing really grabs you, a state of affairs compounded by the album’s unobtrusive sound
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Mar 26, 2025The end result is something that feels both familiar and oddly generic, a set of Lucy Dacus covers performed by Lucy Dacus herself that somehow still leaves out the most vital elements.