Julien Baker - Sprained Ankle, my god

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

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.

great interview, this woman is truly brilliant

and infinitely more knowledgeable than I was at 22

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.

This album has not lost its lustre for me. "Shadowboxing" is just crushing

oh fuck I missed that there was a new album, it is also amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdOZxrp7t7s

I desperately need a covers record - at least an EP!

Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus, and Phoebe Bridgers are.....boygenius

https://www.stereogum.com/2009654/phoebe-bridgers-julien-baker-lucy-dacus-tease-collab/news/

oh fuck

EXCUSE ME

ready for the sadpocalypse

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.

Phoebe tho

oh my days

dacus tho

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.

Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus, and Phoebe Bridgers are.....boygenius

Did Snail Mail not return calls or?

Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus, Phoebe Bridgers, Snail Mail and Soccer Mommy are.....The Traveling Girlburys

yes because they're all the same arent they

are you saying Dylan, Harrison, Lynne, Orbison and Petty were all the same?

yes because they're all the same arent they

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"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

I can see conflating Baker and Bridgers, kinda, but Dacus is very distinct from the other two

maybe that's due to my own limitations as a listener

here it is

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.

first three boygenius songs are on spotify, i've only heard "bite the hand" but my god lucy dacus is such an incredible songwriter

uh "me & my dog" rules too, i love hearing them all sing together???

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

"stay down" essentially envisions my dream julien baker record: her backed by a band that sounds like elliott

Can’t say I’ve ever liked Julian baker but maybe I haven’t heard the right stuff?

there is no wrong stuff

and yes def makes it clear that she could do a great full band album

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 Auditorium
11/06 Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel
11/07 Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel
11/08 Boston, MA @ Orpheum Theatre
11/10 Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall
11/11 Detroit, MI @ Majestic Theatre
11/12 Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
11/13 Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
11/15 St Louis, MO @ The Pageant
11/16 Madison, WI @ The Sylvee
11/17 Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
11/19 Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
11/20 Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot
11/23 Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom
11/24 Seattle, WA @ The Moore Theatre
11/25 Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom
11/27 Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater
11/29 San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park
11/30 Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern

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

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

lol obviously someone made that exact joke hours ago.

a week ago

weeks are made of hours

Jenny Lewis, Bright Eyes, Ben Gibbard and M. Ward already did the indie-singer songwriter Wilburys

so what you're saying is that the bar is really really high

next Wilburys has to be aging k-pop stars

the ep is out today, and almost frustrating in that it feels like a tiny glimpse at a huge world

ep is great, "bite the hand" still my fav track

maybe it's where I'm at but the songs of longing for idylls ("Me & My Dog", "Ketchum, ID") are hitting me hardest

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.

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

Dang the boygenius EP is great

Stay Down needs to be longer. Twice as long.

Idly wondering if the EP is ideal length for the streaming age (and may have been all along).