Lucy Dacus on Writing Sweet and Tart Love Songs for Her Sensational Post-Boygenius Album, ‘Forever Is a Feeling’: ‘Why Not Wear Your Heart on Your Sleeve?’

variety.com:

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic It sounds contradictory, perhaps, to note that Boygenius captivated an entire indie-pop nation with the trio’s 2023 album “The Record” and a subsequent sold-out tour… and that most of those fans were then rooting for the supergroup to go separate ways.

But it’s not so oxymoronic when you consider that the devotees of Lucy Dacus, Julien Baker and Phoebe Bridgers were smart enough to realize that three solo records could be three times as rewarding as a consolidated group effort.

Dacus is first out of the gate with a post-Boygenius solo record. “Forever Is a Feeling” instantly lands as an album that will stand the test of 2025 as one of the year’s best — and offers the comforting assurance that, as these solo efforts emerge, the sum of the group’s parts could be even greater than the whole.

Dacus’ collection of songs is alternately pragmatic and tough and then deeply lovestruck, with an edge that in no way gets in the way of it also being the most romantic record you might hear this year; there’s some real, cerebral wisdom as well as a trace of swooniness to her guardedly elated songs.