Bully – ‘SUGAREGG’ review: a bubblegum grunge soundtrack to making it through tough times
Bully singer and guitarist started her career as an intern at Electrical Audio, the Chicago studio of legendary Nirvana producer Steve Albini, where she learned the tricks that would set her up for life.From there she self-produced, wrote and performed on Bully’s first two excellent records, 2015’s distorted ‘Feels Like’ and 2017’s frayed and frazzled ‘Losing’. Both albums, also featuring guitarist Clayton Parker and bassist Reece Lazarus, reaped the rewards of Albini’s influence; they were perfect slices of sweet-and-sour grunge, deliriously indebted to frayed ’90s alt and Seattle-inspired fuzz-pop.On Bully’s third album, ‘SUGAREGG’, stays firmly in that distorted sweet spot.