2021 Contenders: Brando

Home Videos, the new album by Lucy Dacus, is an engrossing slice of autobiographical lyricism about growing up in a conservative Christian town while coming to terms with your bisexuality. There are echoes of Aimee Mann, Phoebe Bridgers and even Taylor Swift here, particularly on the stand-out track Brando...

You called me "cerebral"

I didn't know what you meant

But now I do, would it have killed you

To call me pretty instead?

I'm in a second story window

And you're yelling at me, "Stella!"

And I'm laughing 'cause you think you're Brando

But you'll never come close

Plus she chooses her cover versions well.