“Lucy Dacus’ highly anticipated fourth album Forever Is a Feeling (2025) is a love record to adulthood and relationships, and a noticeable departure from indie rock to a softer acoustic pop sound,” (WhenTheHornBlows.com). “It comes after the 2021’s critically acclaimed Home Video and 2023’s The Record, which brought wide commercial and industry success to Boygenius, her band alongside Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker … It’s a quiet record filled with emotional honesty, always looking to find meaning in the peculiar, the still, and the small.
Forever Is a Feeling gains richness not by building up, but by stripping away … Dacus sings with quiet conviction, but never certainty. An uncertainty that carries into the title track where gentle synths and echoing vocals blur the edges of time … It is a less immediate record than 2021’s Home Video. The hooks are subtler, the backgrounds quieter, and the scope narrower. Dacus isn’t chasing radio play or viral TikTok sounds, she’s inviting us into her current life. Ultimately, Forever Is a Feeling is about love in its most enduring form. With her artistic vision set on a quieter life, relationships, and the study of love, it results in her softest and most hopeful album yet.”
Dacus, a Virginia native, plays with shifting textures throughout “Forever is a Feeling,” but her vocals always remain primary. After the track begins in Ab major, the chorus shifts up (1:08) to the tonic of B major, obscured somewhat by an first-inversion voicing. The same inversion is applied when the short intro to the next verse returns to the original key (1:22). The pattern continues from there.
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