‘I Feel Better, But I Don’t Feel Good’ is the second album from Naarm-based Wergaia / Wemba Wemba songwriter and artist, Alice Skye. It follows her 2018 debut Friends With Feelings , and sees Skye working with an expanded team of collaborators, including Jen Cloher and friends Sam and Kane King.
The record is filled with tender guitar-led gems and soaring rock ballads. Moments of introspection are matched by catharis, as on single Party Tricks , where Alice Skye confronts self-defeating cycles of behaviour.
Elsewhere lyrics explore the turbulence of our thoughts, alongside the challenges and consolations of friendship. Skye s insightful writing is moving, and humourous. Homesickness talks of complicated relationships with home, and Browser History reflects on what we reveal of ourselves in online searches.