Forever Is a Feeling

by Lucy Dacus

Forever Is a Feeling cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 2025
  • Label: Geffen
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 43:32
  • Community rating: 3.25/5 from 17 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

On her major-label debut 'Forever Is a Feeling', Lucy Dacus shifts from indie rock towards a more ornate, chamber-pop sound, co-producing with Blake Mills to build lush arrangements with strings, piano, and synthesizers. The album's lyrics explore the nuances of adulthood, intimacy, and queer romance with a new maturity, trading the grand statements of past work for quieter, more detailed observations on love. Featuring contributions from Hozier and her Boygenius bandmates, the record maintains a gentle, wistful tone that balances its theatrical, Broadway-inspired moments with Dacus's signature, deeply personal storytelling.

Genres

Descriptors: confessional, female-vocals, acoustic, piano, strings, folk, storytelling, melodic

Tracklist

  1. Calliope Prelude (01:16)
  2. Big Deal (04:19)
  3. Ankles (03:11)
  4. Limerence (03:12)
  5. Modigliani (03:06)
  6. Talk (03:17)
  7. For Keeps (02:11)
  8. Forever Is A Feeling (03:12)
  9. Come Out (03:48)
  10. Best Guess (04:00)
  11. Bullseye (with Hozier) (03:23)
  12. Most Wanted Man (03:54)
  13. Lost Time (04:43)

Credits

  • Lucy Dacus - lead vocals, acoustic guitar, synthesizer, percussion, celesta, engineering
  • Phoenix Rousiamanis - violin, piano, celesta, toy piano, pump organ
  • Blake Mills - acoustic guitar, fretless bass guitar, piano, gamelan, electric guitar, synthesizer, bass guitar, synth bass, tenor guitar, drums, moog bass, harmonica, keyboards, programming
  • Jake Finch - drums, bass guitar, acoustic guitar, synth bass, cello, synthesizer, strings, moog bass, percussion, electric guitar, mandolin, piano, engineering
  • Abe Rounds - drums, percussion
  • Karl McComas-Reichl - cello
  • Phoebe Bridgers - vocals
  • Julien Baker - background vocals, vocals
  • Collin Pastore - pedal steel guitar, piano, engineering
  • Ted Poor - gamelan, drums, percussion
  • Hannah Kim (Luna Li) - harp
  • Madison Cunningham - acoustic guitar, electric guitar
  • Bartees Strange - drums, piano, synthesizer, triangle, engineering
  • Andrew Lappin - drum programming, shaker, tambourine, engineering
  • Melina Duterte - drum programming, synthesizer, bass guitar
  • Chloe Saavedra - drums
  • Benny Bock - mellotron, synthesizer
  • Andrew Hozier-Byrne - vocals
  • Ruairi O'Flaherty - mastering
  • Lars Stalfors - mixing
  • Will Maclellan - engineering
  • Preston Cochran - engineering
  • Joseph Lorge - engineering
  • David Boucher - engineering
  • Michael O'Brien - engineering
  • Hamish Patrick - additional mixing
  • Pat McCaul - additional engineering

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