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Summary Rating “Gay religious trauma music” is the most accurate description I’ve ever heard of Julien Baker. The 25-year-old American singer and multi-instrumentalist has been on a slow but steady upward trajectory since ‘ Sprained Ankle‘ dropped in 2015 and blew up on Bandcamp, with things going into hyperdrive off the back of Turn Out The Lights‘ in 2017, one of the few records that I’ve given a perfect score to. (And was my AOTY for that particular year.) As for ‘ Little O...

The boygenius member’s third album is her first with a full band, taking her anguished stories to greater heights.

Reviews / / 22 · 02 · 2021 “You say it isn’t cut and dry, oh it’s not all black and white,” Julien Baker sings at the outset of ‘Little Oblivions’. “What if it’s all black, baby, all the time?” Since 2015’s ‘Sprained Ankle’, appropriately, the Tennessee songwriter has built a catalogue of songs that explore the range of coloured bruises, grey zones, and emotional fractures sustained across a lifetime, ob...

Here's the type of record that can propel an artist from indie acclaim to widespread recognition. After two critically lauded albums of raw,...

The Skinny Julien Bakers third album, Little Oblivions, is a record of often intense, sometimes perilously dark, self-reflection ★★★★ Album title: Little Oblivions Release date: 26 Feb “Why am I like this?” Those in the habit of reverting to their worst traits at their lowest moments – the things we hate ourselves for doing and saying, but do them and say them anyway, over and over – will recognise this question of introspection. Julien Baker asks thi...

The indie-rock artist on freeing her faith – and her songwriting – from the constraints of ideology.

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photo: Alysse Gafkjen “My dog has to pee,” Julien Baker says almost apologetically. We’ve been talking for about ninety minutes, and the twenty-five-year-old Memphis native is affable and chatty on topics ranging from existential philosophy and music theory to how many cups of coffee she’s had this morning. Her dog, Beans, is a hound mix she adopted from a Nashville shelter, and for an artist known for penning first-person, emotionally draining songs, focusing her attention on Beans has...

Working on new album ‘Little Oblivions’ during some much-needed time off, Julien Baker found herself reflecting on her place in the world, and creating her most striking record yet.

Performance vid of the song from Little Oblivions aired on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert