Julien Baker's 'Little Oblivions' Places Her Songs in Prettier Frames, But the Picture Is No Less Intense: Album Review
Skip to main content Currently Reading Julien Baker's 'Little Oblivions' Places Her Songs in Prettier Frames, But the Picture Is No Less Intense: Album Review Jem Aswad, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail With her 2015 debut “Sprained Ankle” — an album she’s said she made for her college friends — Julien Baker unexpectedly made a deep and instant impact with her stark songs, which combine beautiful melodies and her soaring voice with harrowing and often disturbing lyrics. Critics expended reams of verbiage on the Memphis-spawned Baker’s background (religious upbringing, substance a...