Feels Like

{{Infobox album

| name = Feels Like

| type = studio

| artist = Bully

| cover = Bully Feels Like.jpg

| alt =

| released = June 25, 2015

| recorded = 2014

| studio = Electrical Audio (Chicago, Illinois)

| genre = {{hlist|Indie rock{{cite web|url=https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/reviews/albums/bully-losing|title=Bully are on to a winner with Losing|website=The Line of Best Fit|date=October 18, 2017|access-date=May 26, 2021|last=Michalik|first=Timmy}}|alternative rock|grunge}}

| length = {{duration|m=27|s=51}}

| label = {{hlist|Startime|Columbia}}

| producer = Alicia Bognanno

| prev_title = Bully

| prev_year = 2014

| next_title = Losing

| next_year = 2017

| misc = {{Singles

| name = Feels Like

| type = studio

| single1 = I Remember

| single1date = March 11, 2015{{cite web|url=https://www.thefader.com/2015/03/11/bullys-i-remember-is-the-most-energizing-punk-song-youll-hear-all-day|title=Bully's 'I Remember' Is The Most Energizing Punk Song You'll Hear All Day|website=The Fader|date=March 11, 2015|access-date=May 27, 2021|last=Fitzmaurice|first=Larry}}

| single2 = Trying

| single2date = April 7, 2015{{cite web|url=https://www.stereogum.com/1792066/bully-trying-stereogum-premiere/news/|title=Bully – 'Trying' (Stereogum Premiere)|website=Stereogum|date=April 7, 2015|access-date=May 27, 2021|last=Claymore|first=Gabriela Tully}}

| single3 = Too Tough

| single3date = June 12, 2015{{cite web|url=https://www.spin.com/2015/06/bully-too-tough-stream/|title=Bully Gets 'Too Tough' On Yowling New Single|website=Spin|date=June 12, 2015|access-date=May 27, 2021|last=Brodsky|first=Rachel}}

}}

Feels Like is the debut studio album by American rock band Bully, released on June 23, 2015 by Startime International and Columbia Records.{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/news/58992-bully-announce-debut-album-feels-like/|title=Bully Announce Debut Album Feels Like|website=Pitchfork|date=March 26, 2015|access-date=May 26, 2021|last=Gordon|first=Jeremy}} The album was produced by Bully frontwoman Alicia Bognanno and recorded in 2014 at Electrical Audio in Chicago.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/how-bullys-alicia-bognanno-went-from-studio-geek-to-alt-rock-screamer-50865/|title=How Bully's Alicia Bognanno Went From Studio Geek to Alt-Rock Screamer|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=July 30, 2015|access-date=May 27, 2021|last=Vozick-Levinson|first=Simon}}{{cite web|url=https://www.spin.com/2015/05/bully-feels-like-interview-all-eyes-on/|title=Bully: Honesty Is Their Best Policy|website=Spin|date=May 6, 2015|access-date=May 26, 2021|last=Brodsky|first=Rachel}}

Critical reception

{{Album ratings

| ADM = 7.6/10{{cite web|url=http://www.anydecentmusic.com/review/7315/Bully-Feels-Like.aspx|title=Feels Like by Bully reviews|publisher=AnyDecentMusic?|access-date=December 8, 2019}}

| MC = 77/100{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/feels-like/bully|title=Feels Like by Bully Reviews and Tracks|publisher=Metacritic|access-date=May 23, 2015}}

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/feels-like-mw0002842239|title=Feels Like – Bully|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=May 23, 2015|last=Deming|first=Mark}}

| rev2 = The A.V. Club

| rev2score = B{{cite web|url=https://www.avclub.com/bully-serves-up-a-pop-rock-sucker-punch-with-feels-like-1798184151|title=Bully serves up a pop-rock sucker punch with Feels Like|website=The A.V. Club|date=June 23, 2015|access-date=November 11, 2018|last=Anthony|first=David}}

| rev3 = Exclaim!

| rev3score = 8/10{{cite web|url=https://exclaim.ca/music/article/bully-feels_like|title=Bully: Feels Like|website=Exclaim!|date=June 19, 2015|access-date=November 11, 2018|last=Lindsay|first=Cam}}

| rev4 = The Guardian

| rev4score = {{Rating|2|5}}{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jul/30/bully-feels-like-review-a-grab-bag-of-early-90s-alt-rock-styles|title=Bully: Feels Like review – a grab-bag of early 90s alt-rock styles|newspaper=The Guardian|date=July 30, 2015|access-date=October 28, 2016|last=Hann|first=Michael}}

| rev5 = NME

| rev5score = 8/10{{cite web|url=http://www.nme.com/reviews/bully/16127|title=Bully – 'Feels Like'|website=NME|date=June 15, 2015|access-date=November 11, 2018|last=Cooke|first=Robert|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150618004523/http://www.nme.com/reviews/bully/16127|archive-date=June 18, 2015|url-status=dead}}

| rev6 = Pitchfork

| rev6score = 7.8/10{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20484-bully-feels-like/|title=Bully: Feels Like|website=Pitchfork|date=June 25, 2015|access-date=October 28, 2016|last=Snapes|first=Laura}}

| rev7 = Q

| rev7score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite magazine|title=Bully: Feels Like|magazine=Q|issue=350|date=September 2015|last=Oldham|first=James|pages=109–110}}

| rev8 = Rolling Stone

| rev8score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/feels-like-200815/|title=Feels Like|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=June 29, 2015|access-date=November 11, 2018|last=Sheffield|first=Rob|author-link=Rob Sheffield}}

| rev9 = Spin

| rev9score = 8/10{{cite web|url=https://www.spin.com/2015/06/bully-feels-like-review/|title=Review: Bully Stone and Dethrone the '90s Indie Set on 'Feels Like'|website=Spin|date=June 23, 2015|access-date=October 28, 2016|last=Joyce|first=Colin}}

| rev10 = Uncut

| rev10score = 8/10{{cite magazine|title=Bully: Feels Like|magazine=Uncut|issue=219|date=August 2015|last=Watts|first=Peter|page=72}}

}}

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."

Track listing

{{Track listing

| all_writing = Alicia Bognanno

| title1 = I Remember

| length1 = 1:47

| title2 = Reason

| length2 = 2:46

| title3 = Too Tough

| length3 = 3:17

| title4 = Brainfreeze

| length4 = 2:36

| title5 = Trying

| length5 = 3:53

| title6 = Trash

| length6 = 3:58

| title7 = Six

| length7 = 2:17

| title8 = Picture

| length8 = 2:48

| title9 = Milkman

| length9 = 2:04

| title10 = Bully

| length10 = 2:25

| total_length = 27:51

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Digital edition bonus track

| title11 = Sharktooth

| length11 = 3:29

| total_length = 31:20

}}

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.{{cite AV media notes|title=Feels Like|others=Bully|publisher=Startime International / Columbia Records|year=2015|id=88875075122|type=liner notes}}

Bully