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 Oblivions‘, it honestly isn’t on the same level as its predecessor; it’s not the same record. But nor should it be! ‘