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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 Oblivions‘, it honestly isn’t on the same level as its predecessor; it’s not the same record. B...

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, observed up close in painful detail. On her third album, the view has swung from microcosm to breathta...

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 Baker's 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 this across her third album Little Oblivions, a record of often intense, sometimes perilously dark, s...