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Her new album, Little Oblivions, ignores that impulse. Instead Baker doesn’t worry over how her fan base might view her. You can tell she’s writing for herself this time around. Here Baker gives a deeper insight into her psyche, seemingly processing thoughts in real time as she sings. Many of the songs were written when the artist experienced a relapse after speaking extensively about her recovery from substance abuse. Rather than hiding that aspect of her personal life, Baker narrates her missteps and the frustrations she has with herself throughout the album. In many ways, Little Obl...

made the songsmith an instant sensation. Baker was an undergrad at Middle Tennessee State University at the time, writing emotionally charged, Telecaster-and-pedalboard-powered tunes from her unique point of view as a queer punk rocker from a Christian family raised in Germantown, Tenn. — a Memphis suburb and a conservative pocket in a county that leans blue.  For Baker, Sprained Ankle attracted a congregation of folk, indie, emo and post-rock appreciators, striking a particular chord with other young adults from religious backgrounds striving to define spirituality for themselves. S...

Baker played nearly all the instruments on the demon-battling, searingly personal  Little Oblivions and recorded it with producer, engineer and longtime friend Calvin Lauber in December 2019 and January 2020 at Young Avenue Sound. The album’s other collaborators include her boygenius bandmates, Lucy Dacus and Phoebe Bridgers, who contributed backing vocals to “Favor.” The trio put out an acclaimed EP in 2018, and Baker confirms that there will be more to come. “I don’t like it when people create mystery,” she says. “They’re like, ‘Oo maybe boygenius ...

mtv Julien Baker Can Run Away, But She Won't 'Music itself, the organizations of sound, is really comforting to me,' the singer-songwriter explains as she dives into her third album, 'Little Oblivions' By Danielle Chelosky “I go back and forth about whether that would be the right thing to do,” singer-songwriter Julien Baker says about running away and making music in the woods. On this 10 a.m. phone call, Baker is doing what she seemingly always does — weighing the morality of a situation. “If I isolate myself fr...

Little Oblivions Bobby Olivier | February 24, 2021 - 4:17 pm Share this article: When Julien Baker toured in support of 2017’s delicately devastating Turn Out The Lights, her audiences stood suspended in time. No cheers or sing-alongs, just several hundred bodies frozen in arrest, observing the solo songwriter as she wailed tunes of broken love, tattered faith and crumbling mental health.  While much of Baker’s new LP, Little Oblivions, hits similarly soul-ravaging notes, its accompanying stage show — whenever it comes — will be forced to liven up, emboldened b...