Losing

Nashville band Bully shot out of the cannon in 2015 with Feels Like, a scrappy, pitch-perfect take on '90s-style alt-rock in the vein of Hole, Sonic Youth, and PJ Harvey. Mixed and engineered by frontwoman Alicia Bognanno, Losing keeps pace without a hiccup, from the searing “Feel the Same” and sludgy “Guess There” to the hyper-catchy “Running.” Like the best of her influences, Bognanno has a way of balancing boredom with ferocity, grit with sugar, black-hole self-deprecation with blazing confidence—a study in contrasts.