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Nothing is as simple as it seems on the surface. Every situation is rich with nuance, there are a million questions to be asked, things to be taken into consideration. In life, there is rarely a quick fix, and Julien Baker knows that.
It s been a few years since her previous album, Turn Out The Lights, as well as her work with the trio boygenius. And on her new album,
Little Oblivions, there s no rushing or shying away from the tough stuff. Engineered by Calvin Lauber and mixed by Craig Silvey (who both worked on
Turn Out The Lights),
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Nothing is as simple as it seems on the surface. Every situation is rich with nuance, there are a million questions to be asked, things to be taken into consideration. In life, there is rarely a quick fix, and Julien Baker knows that.
It s been a few years since her previous album, Turn Out The Lights, as well as her work with the trio boygenius. And on her new album,
Little Oblivions, there s no rushing or shying away from the tough stuff. Engineered by Calvin Lauber and mixed by Craig Silvey (who both worked on
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With her 2015 debut “Sprained Ankle” an album she’s said she made for her college friends Julien Baker unexpectedly made a deep and instant impact with her stark songs, which combine beautiful melodies and her soaring voice with harrowing and often disturbing lyrics. Critics expended reams of verbiage on the Memphis-spawned Baker’s background (religious upbringing, substance abuse), but from the beginning her songs and singing transcended any backstory. Her spare sound became a bit more fleshed out with the follow-up, “Turn Out the Lights,” and even more so on the 2018 EP from Boygenius, the ironically Crosby, Stills & Nash-themed “supergroup” she formed with fellow bards Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus.
made the songsmith an instant sensation. Baker was an undergrad at Middle Tennessee State University at the time, writing emotionally charged, Telecaster-and-pedalboard-powered tunes from her unique point of view as a queer punk rocker from a Christian family raised in Germantown, Tenn. â a Memphis suburb and a conservative pocket in a county that leans blue.Â
For Baker,
Sprained Ankle attracted a congregation of folk, indie, emo and post-rock appreciators, striking a particular chord with other young adults from religious backgrounds striving to define spirituality for themselves. She and her band â a mix of Music City and Bluff City players that includes guitarist Mariah Schneider, bassist Calvin Lauber, keyboardist Noah Forbes and drummer Matthew Gilliam â have also endeared themselves to Gen-Xers with Jawbreaker and Death Cab for Cutie covers. In a KEXP session taped recently at Third Man Records, Baker busted out a haunting solo rendition of Soundgardenâ�