yes because they're all the same arent they
― 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link
there is no wrong stuff
― niels, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 16:06 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link
lol obviously someone made that exact joke hours ago.
a week ago
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 22:34 (five years ago) link
weeks are made of hours
― ant banks and wasp (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 23:11 (five 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 (five years ago) link
so what you're saying is that the bar is really really high
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 15:11 (five years ago) link
next Wilburys has to be aging k-pop stars
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 15:13 (five 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
looking forward to hearing the other 3 songs. weird spotify metadata thing that will hurt their clicks - "boygenius" is an artist, but it only shows their three singles - not the EP. in order to find the EP, you have to type in one of the 3 member's names, where it's then displayed as an album. maybe i'll crosspost this with the spotify thread since someone there might actually be able to fix it.
― Karl Malone, Friday, 26 October 2018 19:29 (five years ago) link
bridgers's solo work is certainly my favourite so i'm not really surprised that the tracks she leads here are my favourites, but the collaborative approach seems to elevate all of them and hearing them sing together is wonderful
― ufo, Saturday, 27 October 2018 05:56 (five years ago) link
Dang the boygenius EP is great
― abcfsk, Monday, 29 October 2018 09:32 (five years ago) link
Stay Down needs to be longer. Twice as long.
― Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Monday, 29 October 2018 20:48 (five years ago) link
Idly wondering if the EP is ideal length for the streaming age (and may have been all along).
― Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Monday, 29 October 2018 20:49 (five years ago) link
I haven't really kept up since the first Julien Baker album, but I'm listening to the boygenius ep on rotation today and it's wonderful. I need to go back and see what I missed in the interim.
― brain (krakow), Sunday, 4 November 2018 15:03 (five years ago) link
I know I slept on the Phoebe Bridgers album last year and have been escaping to that world pretty obsessively lately.
― abcfsk, Sunday, 4 November 2018 18:57 (five years ago) link
That other sad parallel world
― abcfsk, Sunday, 4 November 2018 18:58 (five years ago) link
Always managed to move inRight next to the cemeteriesAnd never far from hospitalsI don’t know what that tells you about me
occam's razor says they're living in dense urban areas so nothing is ever that far away
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Sunday, 4 November 2018 20:57 (five years ago) link
because all of those dense urban-centred cemeteries...
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Monday, 5 November 2018 16:42 (five years ago) link
lol there are two cemeteries down the road from my high school!!
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 01:09 (five years ago) link
i live next to a (small) cemetery
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 01:16 (five years ago) link
anyway lucy dacus is the greatest songwriter in indie rock today
the way they trade vocals on "souvenir" is exquisite, and their harmonies at the end!!!
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 01:24 (five years ago) link
oh yeah this record gave me a nervous breakdown
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Thursday, November 5, 2015 3:12 PM (three years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
happy anniversary
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 01:28 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljOonyYsMJI
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 13:13 (five years ago) link
love it
julien is so damn adorable
anyone know why "boygenius"?
― niels, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 19:25 (five years ago) link
policygenius was taken
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 19:26 (five years ago) link
cool that they made Julien's vocals totally inaudible in that clip
― Number None, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 19:35 (five years ago) link
nice! me & my dog is still my fave. (though they mixed julien super low in that performance, bummer)
also calling them a "supergroup" sometimes makes sense in press outlets that have covered the individual members before and given them lots of praise, but it's kind of weird to hear them referred to that on late night tv
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 19:35 (five years ago) link
xp!yeah, i'm sure they listened back to it later and were a little :/
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 19:36 (five years ago) link
(not to focus too much on the mixing of a live performance but) maybe what happened was that julien's voice was a bit too high in the mix during rehearsal, so during performance the mixer turned her down AND she chose to sing further away from the mic in an attempt to fix it on her end, and it ended up with her pretty much at 0
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 19:39 (five years ago) link
re: the band name
“I felt the need then to qualify that we didn’t want to be in control in a mean or exclusionary way," Baker says. "But the thing about being a woman in the music industry is that you constantly feel the need to qualify yourself. We produced this record and all the players are female. It was important for us to show that there doesn’t have to be a man behind the scenes pulling the strings who is later accredited with the genius.”
― Number None, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 19:41 (five years ago) link
lmao I can definitely imagine an unfamiliar sound guy assuming she'd have a small/meek vocal presence only to render half the audience deaf xp
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 19:41 (five years ago) link
xp cool, thanks!
― niels, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 19:42 (five years ago) link
to be fair to the sound person, she definitely looks like she's belting it in that performance. maybe he/she overcompensated ... or maybe Karl Malone is right.
but yeah, a bit of a bummer there.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 19:58 (five years ago) link