Tried listening to this album today. It sounds like it was commissioned by a music supervisor at Hulu. Maybe the most faceless thing I've heard all year. Genuinely baffled by the appeal of stuff like this - or at least baffled how people can tell this sad-girl-with-guitar from the six dozen others who sound exactly like her who also put out albums this month.
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, November 1, 2017 1:26 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is a horseshit opinion, not that i would expect much else
― call all destroyer, Friday, 3 November 2017 02:49 (six years ago) link
the six dozen others who sound exactly like her who also put out albums this month
name names! looks like i have some catch up listening to do.
― monotony, Friday, 3 November 2017 05:27 (six years ago) link
yeah i'm doing a big EOY catch-up and would also love to know who these six dozen sad girls with guitars are
― joshywinty (josh), Friday, 3 November 2017 05:35 (six years ago) link
so i can make time in my personal schedule for all of them
― joshywinty (josh), Friday, 3 November 2017 05:36 (six years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/features/song-by-song/julien-baker-delves-into-the-trauma-and-triumph-behind-every-song-on-her-new-album/
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 3 November 2017 09:18 (six years ago) link
I honestly found reading that to be more emotionally bracing than listening to the album :(
for people who like JB I would recommend the most recent albums by Emma Ruth Rundle and Sarah Mary Chadwick
― Simon H., Friday, 3 November 2017 09:28 (six years ago) link
I connected hard to a couple of the songs on her first album, but my first impression of this new album is actually that on the whole I like it better than the first. Beautiful melodies, lyrics still raw in the best ways.
― abcfsk, Friday, 3 November 2017 09:32 (six years ago) link
great interview, this woman is truly brilliant
and infinitely more knowledgeable than I was at 22
― niels, Friday, 3 November 2017 10:20 (six years ago) link
Saw her last night, she was terrific. Her voice is really something you have to hear live to fully appreciate, how huge it is and how skillful and subtle she's gotten at deploying it. Amazing clarity of tone in both her singing and playing, it was really radiant.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 30 November 2017 17:29 (six years ago) link
This album has not lost its lustre for me. "Shadowboxing" is just crushing
― Number None, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 18:19 (six years ago) link
oh fuck I missed that there was a new album, it is also amazing
― akm, Monday, 15 January 2018 02:49 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdOZxrp7t7s
― etc, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 04:38 (six years ago) link
I desperately need a covers record - at least an EP!
― Simon H., Wednesday, 18 April 2018 12:19 (six years ago) link
Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus, and Phoebe Bridgers are.....boygenius
https://www.stereogum.com/2009654/phoebe-bridgers-julien-baker-lucy-dacus-tease-collab/news/
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Friday, 10 August 2018 18:14 (six years ago) link
oh fuck
― dj screwed (Ross), Friday, 10 August 2018 18:14 (six years ago) link
EXCUSE ME
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 10 August 2018 18:33 (six years ago) link
ready for the sadpocalypse
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Friday, 10 August 2018 18:35 (six years ago) link
Interested in what she sounds like as a band member but I also need her to be lead as I’m not as much into the other two.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 10 August 2018 18:59 (six years ago) link
Phoebe tho
― grandaddy of all liars (Ross), Friday, 10 August 2018 21:05 (six years ago) link
oh my days
― Minister of the Pillow (fionnland), Friday, 10 August 2018 21:59 (six years ago) link
dacus tho
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Saturday, 11 August 2018 12:46 (six years ago) link
I will prob not hear an indie rock record better than historian this year
Yeah it's really great. The highs on the Bridgers album are considerable as well.
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Saturday, 11 August 2018 18:02 (six years ago) link
Did Snail Mail not return calls or?
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 11 August 2018 18:13 (six years ago) link
Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus, Phoebe Bridgers, Snail Mail and Soccer Mommy are.....The Traveling Girlburys
― alpine static, Saturday, 11 August 2018 22:01 (six years ago) link
yes because they're all the same arent they
― Number None, Saturday, 11 August 2018 22:55 (six years ago) link
are you saying Dylan, Harrison, Lynne, Orbison and Petty were all the same?
― alpine static, Sunday, 12 August 2018 11:06 (six years ago) link
― Number None, Saturday, August 11, 2018 6:55 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
"they" aren't, of course, but the fact is the music these particular individuals make sounds indistinguishable to me. Maybe you can convince me otherwise? Because in a blindfold test I could absolutely not tell you one from the other, but maybe that's due to my own limitations as a listener
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 12 August 2018 18:32 (six years ago) link
I can see conflating Baker and Bridgers, kinda, but Dacus is very distinct from the other two
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Sunday, 12 August 2018 19:31 (six years ago) link
maybe that's due to my own limitations as a listener
here it is
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Sunday, 12 August 2018 19:36 (six years ago) link
fwiw, Ponzi's Snail Mail joke made me chuckle, and i made my dumb joke, but i definitely don't find those 5's (or 3's) music indistinguishable. i just lumped them together because they're prominent members of the wave of young women that has risen up in indie rock over the past couple years.
― alpine static, Monday, 13 August 2018 02:35 (six years ago) link
first three boygenius songs are on spotify, i've only heard "bite the hand" but my god lucy dacus is such an incredible songwriter
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 15:27 (six years ago) link
uh "me & my dog" rules too, i love hearing them all sing together???
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 15:30 (six years ago) link
Eh soccer mommy does not sound like snail mail. Lush had a few rockers but was mostly subdued stoner grunge. Soccer mommy rips a lot more in a Colleen green fashion, concise fuzzed out power pop vs folkier songs on the record
― Ross, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 15:31 (six years ago) link
"stay down" essentially envisions my dream julien baker record: her backed by a band that sounds like elliott
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 15:35 (six years ago) link
Can’t say I’ve ever liked Julian baker but maybe I haven’t heard the right stuff?
― Ross, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 15:36 (six years ago) link
there is no wrong stuff
― niels, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 16:06 (six years ago) link
and yes def makes it clear that she could do a great full band album
― niels, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 16:22 (six years ago) link
damn, "Bite the Hand" would be at home on the new Mitski, and "Stay Down" is what I was hoping for from the last Baker album. they're touring together, too:
11/04 Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium11/06 Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel11/07 Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel11/08 Boston, MA @ Orpheum Theatre11/10 Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall11/11 Detroit, MI @ Majestic Theatre11/12 Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall11/13 Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall11/15 St Louis, MO @ The Pageant11/16 Madison, WI @ The Sylvee11/17 Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue11/19 Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre11/20 Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot11/23 Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom11/24 Seattle, WA @ The Moore Theatre11/25 Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom11/27 Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater11/29 San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park11/30 Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 17:26 (six years ago) link
i mean i think as alpine pointed out the wilburys were more tied culturally than by a certain sound so i think the joke is fine
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 19:49 (six years ago) link
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/21/639528019/hear-new-music-from-phoebe-bridgers-julien-baker-lucy-dacus-supergroup-boygenius
need soccer mommy and snail mail to join to make a full-blown traveling wilburys situation
― ant banks and wasp (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 21:47 (six years ago) link
lol obviously someone made that exact joke hours ago.
a week ago
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 22:34 (six years ago) link
weeks are made of hours
― ant banks and wasp (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 23:11 (six years ago) link
Jenny Lewis, Bright Eyes, Ben Gibbard and M. Ward already did the indie-singer songwriter Wilburys
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 14:50 (six years ago) link
so what you're saying is that the bar is really really high
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 15:11 (six years ago) link
next Wilburys has to be aging k-pop stars
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 15:13 (six years ago) link
the ep is out today, and almost frustrating in that it feels like a tiny glimpse at a huge world
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Friday, 26 October 2018 17:23 (five years ago) link
ep is great, "bite the hand" still my fav track
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 26 October 2018 17:46 (five years ago) link
maybe it's where I'm at but the songs of longing for idylls ("Me & My Dog", "Ketchum, ID") are hitting me hardest
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Friday, 26 October 2018 17:57 (five years ago) link