Lucy Dacus just released her album, Forever Is A Feeling, alongside a special performance video for her newest single ‘Bullseye’ featuring Ireland’s Hozier. The two filmed together while performing at The National Gallery in Dublin for the legendary Irish television show Other Voices.

Dacus first met Hozier, who she describes as one of her favourite artists, when he joined her onstage during a boygenius show in Boston in September 2023. She later invited the Irish singer-songwriter to duet with her on the single ‘Bullseye’. Since this is a breakup song, Dacus felt it was important for both partners’ respective voices to be portrayed.

The heartbreaking lyrics include: “I’ll miss borrowin’ your books to read your notes in the margin. The closest I came to readin’ your mind” and “I wanted to be there the day you figured it all out. Whoever is, I hope they’re proud.”

The stunning performance video ends with a break in tension with a delightful exchange between the artists. Dacus remarks, “We can move on,” and “Wow, okay one take Jake, you feel good about that?” with Hozier playfully confirming, “Yeah, call me Jake.”

Lucy Dacus is best known for her work with boygenius, the Grammy-winning queer indie supergroup which formed in 2018. She performed as part of the band trio featuring Phoebe Bridgers and her recently confirmed girlfriend, Julien Baker.

After their massively successful world tour, the band announced an indefinite hiatus in 2024, and Dacus began recording her fourth solo record, Forever Is A Feeling. The album’s first single, ‘Ankles’, debuted in January and instantly became a top-ten hit in the US.

NME said: “Dacus’ voice, steady, expansive and filled with warmth, has a nostalgic, old-timey quality, and she skewers the many sides of love – obsessive, gentle, precarious and unrealised – with observational scenes and unsteady first steps into unknown and risky new territory.”

Reflecting on the album’s lyrics, Ann Powers of NPR Music said: “Dacus is an expert in pulling out the details of experiences that start and often stay inside a person’s head.” The New Yorker described it as “A gorgeous and tender album”, and Slate called it “One of the Best of the Year…A minor masterpiece of modern songwriting about love.”

Lucy Dacus will embark on the Forever Is A Feeling Tour beginning in Philadelphia, US, on April 16. She is performing in Dublin on July 3 at Iveagh Gardens, and tickets are still available from €44.20!