Feels Like
Feels Like is the debut studio album by American rock band Bully, released on June 23, 2015 by Startime International and Columbia Records. The album was produced by Bully frontwoman Alicia Bognanno and recorded in 2014 at Electrical Audio in Chicago. Critical reception. "Feels Like" received generally positive reviews from 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 19 reviews. In his review for "NME", Robert Cooke highlighted Alicia Bognanno's "honest, witty" songwriting and stated that "Feels Like  revels in the simplicity of a great pop song while cleverly articulating the everyday truths of 20-something life". "Pitchfork"s Laura Snapes noted the contrast between the "explosive, rollicking" music and Bognanno's lyrics, which Snapes felt displayed an intimacy comparable to that of "Courtney Barnett or Waxahatchee's Katie Crutchfield". James Oldham of "Q" wrote that while Bully's heavy influence from 1990s alternative rock is apparent, the album "retains a thrilling freshness" due to Bognanno's "formidable presence", as well as her "taut, confessional" lyrics, whose directness he said complemented the music's "brutal succinctness". Michael Hann of  The Guardian was less enthusiastic, describing "Feels Like" as "a grab-bag of early-90s alt-rock styles that sounded tired by the mid-90s – and haven't got any fresher since." Personnel. Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. Bully Production Design