- New
Interscope Records
00602445236725
This Is What It Feels Like is Gracie Abrams at her most immediate: a record built from the fragments that usually escape notice — unfinished conversations, private doubts, fleeting moments of certainty. Her writing has a diaristic quality, but there is nothing accidental about the way these songs are put together. Every hesitation seems carefully placed.
Across the album, Abrams explores the instability of young adulthood without trying to turn it into a neat coming-of-age story. Love, friendship, distance and self-doubt overlap and contradict one another, often within the same song. The emotional details are specific, but the feelings they describe are anything but.
The production keeps things intimate, leaving enough space for Abrams’ voice and lyrics to carry the weight. There is a restraint here that makes the bigger moments hit harder — the songs rarely announce what they are feeling, trusting the listener to get close enough to notice.
This Is What It Feels Like is the kind of album that grows through repetition. Quietly detailed, emotionally restless and remarkably honest, it captures that particular stage of life when you are beginning to understand yourself, but haven’t quite figured yourself out yet.
NEW / Released in 2021 / Reissued in 2022
Tracklist:
A1 Feels Like
A2 Rockland
A3 For Real This Time
A4 Camden
A5 The Bottom
A6 Wishful Thinking
B1 Older
B2 Better
B3 Hard To Sleep
B4 Augusta
B5 Painkillers
B6 Alright