Lucy Dacus, let us sleep. Last week, the singer set the queer internet abuzz when she announced she was looking for “hot mascs” for a new music video — and this week, she hit us with an album announcement,

Lucy Dacus is famous now. When she released her last solo album, 2021’s very good Home Video, Dacus was a hugely acclaimed indie singer-songwriter, but acclaim and fame are two different things. After taking part in the 2023 boygenius phenomenon,

Yesterday, Lucy Dacus announced a new album, Forever Is a Feeling, and shared two new songs from it, “Ankles” and “Limerence.” Last night she was the musical guest on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where she performed “Ankles” with a string section and was clad in the same dress she wore in the “Ankles” video. Watch the performance below.

You can’t actually capture forever,” Dacus says. “But I think we feel forever in moments. I don’t know how much time I’ve spent in forever, but I know I’ve visited.” In February, the singer-songwriter is set to visit a number of less liminal places than forever,

To preview the album, Dacus shared two excellent new tracks: “Ankles” and “Limerence.” The former is a sexually-charged stunner, in which she sings over a euphoric string arrangement, “What if we don’t touch?/What if we only talk about what we want/And cannot have/And I’ll throw a fit?”