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The three musicians went on to support each other with advice as they all worked through the demands of becoming a fast-rising, nationally touring solo artist. “They both have very warm and kind personalities and were very easy to understand and feel understood by.” “With both of them, Lucy and Phoebe, when we first met in the dressing room, we immediately hit it off,” says Baker. That feels good.”īoygenius came together informally over the past few years, after the three members crossed paths on various tours. “It’s nice to record with people my own age. “Because we trusted each other creatively, we ended up showing each other a lot of our own unreleased shit that we felt weird or self-conscious about, and we really affirmed each other,” says Bridgers, who notes that she also relished the comfort of having fellow bandmates who can appreciate a good meme. In interviews, each of the three singers describes Boygenius as a uniquely self-determined collective group, the likes of which the singers, who are all under 25, say they had yet to find in an industry that heavily skews older and male. Like Dave Grohl was looking directly into the camera describing this magical studio moment.” “Because you’re not wholly committed to the final version of a song, it’s still so nascent that it can be literally anything.” “When you take all of the restraints off of what songwriting looks like, it could go in any direction,” Baker says. Nowhere did the trio’s collaborative confidence manifest itself more than when they cowrote “Ketchum, ID,” a process that forced all three songwriters to rethink what it means to compose a song. due next month, represents a creative and interpersonal zenith for the three musicians - a space where Bridgers, Dacus and Baker can become their very own rock & roll superheroes. Their collaboration as Boygenius, marked by a stunning six-song self-titled E.P. Bridgers merges Elliott Smith-indebted folk-pop melody with a conversational, thoroughly modern approach to storytelling Baker imbues secular genres like roots-folk and emo-punk with an urgent spirituality and Dacus navigates political and familial currents by incorporating elements of pop, blues and grunge into her band’s sound. All three are relatively new artists - the earliest of their solo debuts dates back to 2015 - but each has subtly reshaped the contours of the genre. Making music was just a natural result of being together, easy as can be but also rare in a way that feels irreplicable.For fans of indie-flavored singer-songwriter music, Bridgers, Baker and Dacus are already well on their way into that mythic rock-doc realm. “That day had the same atmosphere as when we recorded the boygenius EP. “We sang on ‘Favor’ in Nashville the same day we recorded vocals for ‘Graceland Too’ and a song of mine,” Dacus, whose last album was 2018’s Historian, said in a release. Last year saw them back Hayley Williams on “Roses/Lotus/Violet/Iris,” then sing two of Bridgers’s Punisher tracks, including the stunning “I Know the End.” And it sounds like we should expect yet another boygenius reunion soon. The song is just the latest collaboration for the trio since their standout 2018 boygenius EP. Baker’s boygenius bandmates Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus join her on backing vocals, punctuating Baker’s raw lyrics with their second-nature harmonies.
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On her new single “Favor,” she’s building out that sound with old friends. Julien Baker’s upcoming third album, Little Oblivions, is her biggest yet, abandoning her intimate acoustics for a full-band sound. Photo: NBC/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker, and Lucy Dacus, performing together as boygenius.