Lucy Dacus is a formidable solo artist—since 2016, she has released three albums of searching, intimate folk rock—but she’s perhaps best known as one-third of the indie supergroup boygenius, alongside Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker. Although boygenius formed in 2018, and put out an eponymous EP that year, the release of its début full-length, “The Record,” in 2023, was a seismic event: it garnered seven Grammy nominations and three wins, and earned the band a slot on a Timothée Chalamet-hosted episode of “Saturday Night Live,” a sold-out show at Madison Square Garden, and a Rolling Stone cover. “We had these big goals of playing sick shows. But it immediately outpaced our expectations. We just had to adjust. I’m still shocked,” Dacus said. Boygenius is currently inactive. It’s not easy to say no to more money, more attention. Yet the band had predetermined the time frame on the basis of self-preservation. “It was so much fun, and I think we ended at the perfect time,” she said.

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Lucy Dacus is a formidable solo artist—since 2016, she has released three albums of searching, intimate folk rock—but she’s perhaps best known as one-third of the indie supergroup boygenius, alongside Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker. Although boygenius formed in 2018, and put out an eponymous EP that year, the release of its début full-length, “The Record,” in 2023, was a seismic event: it garnered seven Grammy nominations and three wins, and earned the band a slot on a Timothée Chalamet-hosted episode of “Saturday Night Live,” a sold-out show at Madison Square Garden, and a Rolling Stone cover.
“We had these big goals of playing sick shows. But it immediately outpaced our expectations. We just had to adjust. I’m still shocked,” Dacus said. Boygenius is currently inactive. It’s not easy to say no to more money, more attention. Yet the band had predetermined the time frame on the basis of self-preservation. “It was so much fun, and I think we ended at the perfect time,” she said.
Now this spring, Dacus, who is 29, will release “Forever Is a Feeling,” her fourth solo record. “It’s a gorgeous and tender album about falling in love and how the tumult of that experience has forced her to reckon with the unknown,” Amanda Petrusich writes. “Every single day, I’m just, like, ‘I can’t believe this is the job. Just plumb the depths and give it away!’ ” Dacus said. Read Petrusich’s profile of the singer-songwriter.

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