But the Virginia indie-rock troubadour croons as if shes living out a lush-life fantasy of Hollywood romance.

Dacus stretches out onForever Is a Feeling, at a moment when shes at her most high-profile.

These songs take place in the middle of long-running messy relationships some desperately romantic, some just painful.

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Shervin Lainez*

(Bridgers and Baker pitch in with back-up vocals elsewhere.)

I miss borrowing your books to read your notes in the margins, Hozier purrs to her harmonies.

The closest I got to reading your mind.

Last Time and Big Deal are more downbeat acoustic ballads.