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Vinyl LP pressing, includes digital download. While Bully s 2013 debut Feels Like tumbled headlong into the precarious nature of Alicia Bognanno s young adult life, it s follow-up Losing is their first for Sub Pop (which in many ways feels like their spiritual home; Bully s sound is an outgrowth of the bands the label championed in the late 80s and 90s). Losing is a document of the complexity of growth: navigating breakups with sensitivity, learning not to flee from your troubles but to face them down no matter how messy they may be ( Well, this isn t the summer I wanted, she muses on Blame, before admitting that she s trying to cut down on booze and you ). Written as the group slowed down from touring constantly and Bognanno attempted to adjust to how different a home schedule is from a road schedule, her songwriting has matured from the quick one-two punches of Feels Like to tracks that contemplate the necessity of space in both song structure and emotion. Bognanno s gruff yet dynamic voice is allowed to bloom, and it has a tenderness and openness to it here that s new. There are multiple layers of wistfulness and care to her delivery of lines like It just takes one disagreement for you to remember the one time I fucked up, from Spiral, turning songs that could be one-dimensional kiss-offs into warm and complex expressions of regret.

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