LUCY DACUS NO BURDEN

摘要

No Burden, the first major release for Richmond, VA. native, Lucy Dacus, is my top album of the year thus far. Dacus' voice spills over warm jagged guitars like honey on a pile of kindling, just waiting to leap into flames. Dacus writes immediately accessible melodic songs that pay dividends with future and deeper listens. While her voice is so immediately captivating, it is easy to miss those guitars - simultaneously fat and sharp - cutting through and across one another. Opener, I Don't Want to Be Funny Anymore has Dacus seeking to break from expectations and curious how to carve a new path - one that is not expected or predetermined. She'd rather front the band than be its biggest fan, her previously expected path.