Sugaregg
Sugaregg (stylized in all caps) is the third studio album by American rock act Bully. It was released on August 21, 2020 by Sub Pop. Following two albums that were recorded by Bully as a band, "Sugaregg" is the first Bully album to be recorded as a solo project of frontwoman Alicia Bognanno. She co-produced "Sugaregg" with John Congleton and Graham Walsh, making it the first Bully album not to be solely produced by Bognanno. Background and recording. Following the release of Bully's second album "Losing" (2017), bassist Reece Lazarus and guitarist Clayton Parker departed the band , leaving lead vocalist and guitarist Alicia Bognanno as its sole remaining member. Bognanno opted to continue recording solo material under the Bully name. After having self-produced Bully's first two albums "Feels Like" (2015) and "Losing", Bognanno decided to seek outside assistance in producing "Sugaregg", as she felt that the quality of the music would be compromised if she continued to handle both songwriting and engineering duties by herself. She enlisted John Congleton to co-produce the album with her, while Graham Walsh of the band Holy Fuck provided additional production. Bognanno said in June 2019 that "Sugaregg" would  be produced "in a completely different way, on completely different terms... a lot has changed and I feel a lot better in every aspect of my life than I have in a long time." That summer, she recorded the bulk of the album in two weeks at Pachyderm Studios in Cannon Falls, Minnesota, accompanied by Congleton and backing musicians Zachary Dawes and Wesley Mitchell. Bognanno then worked on additional material for the record over the next five months, which she recorded at Palace Sound in Toronto, assisted by Walsh. The songs on "Sugaregg" were written by Bognanno "on and off  over a period of around three years. She derived the album's title from an episode of the WNYC radio program Radiolab" that profiled a man who preserved an egg-shaped mold of sugar, a keepsake from his childhood, for several decades. Critical reception. Upon its release, "Sugaregg" was generally well received by music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an average score of 77, based on 13 reviews. Personnel. Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.