Bully’s Alicia Bognanno has never shied away from letting her music get personal. Though the Nashville musician has been churning out high-energy rock songs since 2015’s, the work has always served as an effervescent vessel. While its standout single “Trying” found her examining her tendency to criticize herself, it did so with a howling chorus—her signature raspy voice raw with power, and a rhythm section bouncing along with it. This structure has become Bully’s winning formula.
The life Bognanno has lived in the intervening years now resides inside songs of their own. Bully’s new album,, is her finest work to date. Never before has Bognanno crafted a record so consistently captivating, able to fire on all cylinders even in its quieter moments.was made alongside producer J.T. Daly, known for his work with acts like PVRIS and K. Flay. While the pairing may seem odd, the album was made to sound right at-home on the radio.
Bognanno has also been open about her journey with sobriety-and now, as she looks on from a new vantage point, she’s begun looking back on all the things her pre-sobrietry regrets. In the album’s barnstormer of an opener, “All I Do,” Bognanno reaffirms the promises she’s made to herself while going great distances to make things right. It’s an absolutely massive song, wasting no time in enveloping you in Bully’s trademark fuzz and feedback.
While Bognanno’s lyrical content helps set the band head and shoulders above their peers, the real magic ofcomes in the form of melodies so catchy that “infectious” feels like an understatement. Pick nearly any song on the tracklist and there’s guaranteed to be a hook made that will rattle around in your head for days on end. There’s the snarling “Hard To Love” which coils back and strikes like a snake, with just as much venom in its conception as there is in its execution.
“Lose You”, a duet with fellow Nashvillian Sophie Allison—aka Soccer Mommy—captures a sentiment with its opening line that could easily be the record’s thesis statement: “Time’s just a useless measurement of pain” Bognanno proclaims, with a sense of resignation in her voice. It depicts her dreaming and grappling with loss, fighting at how impossible it is to fix things that have already happened, or feel inevitable.
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