With crashing chords, whisper-to-howl vocals, and lyrics guaranteed to appear in a TikTok lip-sync by your younger cousin (cowboys have neck tattoos, someone is called a winter bitch, another falls down the stairs), it should go down as one of 2023s best albums. And I dont feel bad about it., Bridgers, listening carefully, says hearing you say that is helping me love myself. That rush was inspired by Bridgers, when she was in a major Frank Black phase. With the attention span of being in lockdown, it was just really beautiful, she says. The trio put out an EP in 2018, and announced a new album this week by releasing three new songs. Dacus: We let you have food on your face. I was like, I want to do this every year, and I have, even though my mom and I are homies now.. Tailor: alvard bazikyan. Ive been like a prototypical queer lady redirecting the conversation to dogs, she says. By Samantha Rollins. Review: Indie-rock boygenius with Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, Julien Baker returns with confidence The trio's first full-length album, 'The Record,'is a stirring collection of negotiations and love songs . War is bad! Shut up. Bridgers and Mescal were said to be engaged and, later, rumored to have broken up; Bridgers didnt comment, other than to say she is not presently engaged. - Phoebe Bridgers Pitchfork Julien Baker Lucy Dacus . Her first official release was the single "Killer" in 2015, followed by her . I played a show in Aspen with The National when I was very young. And we just started talking about books and then when I was going to end the conversation we did a high five that turned into linking arms and making like a circle thing and she was like, How did you know intuitively to do it? And then we called it the double eagle and we were always friends. And it takes no effort. Adds Bridgers, The thesis statement came after the thing, you know? No one ever suggested we should start a band that feels genuine, she says they just did it. This closing track on The Record, the debut full length by the trio of Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus also has a touch of vengeance, though not joyfully so. And Rebecca Rukeysers The Seaplane on Final Approach, which Bridgers gives me a copy of the following day. It was on one of those writing trips that Leonard Cohen was born. The record has sonic influences but, on a deeper level, were influenced by the space and opportunity to make bad art for a long time., That leads to a digression about, as Baker puts it, that one cool teacher who was like, Hey kid, I heard your band is releasing a record you dont have to turn in your homework! Ill make out with yall.. Like The Trapeze Swinger, Leonard Cohen has no chorus just Dacus on acoustic guitar, rattling off lines both charming (You felt like an idiot adding an hour to the drive/But it gave us more time to embarrass ourselves/Telling stories we wouldnt tell anyone else) and hilarious (Leonard Cohen once said theres a crack in everything/Thats how the light gets in/And I am not an old man having an existential crisis/In a Buddhist monastery/Writing horny poetry/But I agree). I play to thousands of people a night, and sometimes Im mentally in a really bad place, Bridgers says. Bridgers was so enraptured that she lost sight of the GPS, and her bandmates didnt have the heart to tell her she was headed in the wrong direction. Their evocative musical arrangements and honest, relatable lyrics have earned them a reputation for leading an artistic vanguard that celebrates self-reflection and splendid songwriting. But when they all blend together, they create something altogether thrilling and new. Rest in peace dad, she wrote. But it was 2018s Historian that first shook listeners, particularly the brutal, nearly seven-minute breakup anthem Night Shift, where she painfully bids farewell to a lover she still has to work with (You got a 9 to 5, so Ill take the night shift/And Ill never see you again if I can help it). I want the most joy that I can get, and I want that for everyone that I love. n another life we were arsonists, goes a lyric on this first album from, Watch the video for Boygeniuss Not Strong Enough. In the last two years, the spotlight on Bridgers has only intensified, including tight analysis of her dating life. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. The three artists' relationship has also become a site for undertaking, as Baker has put it, "a learning process to know the difference between being scrutinized and being seen." It's a concern. Anyone who loves boygenius intensely lovesick 2018 track Me and My Dog will be even more devastated by Letter to an Old Poet, a brutally honest monologue about an all-consuming love. That song is about when someone has so much power over you, they stop being a person, she explains (while declining to say who its about). Expectations for the album were high on account of an impressive self-titled EP that Boygenius released in 2018, but even so, "the record" transcended. Theyre playing April 15 and 22, on the festivals Saturday nights ahead of the headliner, Blackpink, the massive K-pop girl group. We want to hear it. Phoebe Lucille Bridgers (born August 17, 1994) is an American singer-songwriter. Bridgers: My mom got her first tattoo at my house last night. "There's nothing avant-garde about it," she says of Punisher, her second solo record and fourth major . julian baker, lucy dacus, and phoebe bridgers reunite at the met gala . The new episode of our weekly Rolling Stone Music Now digs deep into the band and the album, with Angie Martoccio, who wrote the cover story, joining host Brian Hiatt. The Tennessee native can count the number of times shes been to a beach on one hand, which is probably a good thing. Boygenius Support Trans Rights and Say 'F-ck Ron DeSantis' at Coachella, Baker met Bridgers a month later, and when the three found out theyd be touring together on a triple bill in 2018, they decided to head into the studio, thinking theyd record a seven-inch single to promote the shows. Soon they were sending long missives back and forth, trading book recommendations, and developing crushes on each other, which they didnt admit to until later. I was listening to a lot of Reliant K and pop-punk bands, so it was sort of like playful school delinquency lyrics, nothing super deep. The end result of all that hard work and loving s talking is already landing some of the best reviews of the year. We talk about peoples disdain for what the teens are doing, Dacus says. Throughout our time together, she worries over my audio quality and is careful to specify whats on and off the record. Baker, Bridgers, and Dacus are all beloved solo artists, though Bridgers broke through to the music-your-dad-has-heard-of level during the pandemic with her sophomore album, Punisher (which earned her four Grammy nominations), and collaborations with Taylor Swift, McCartney, Lorde, and others (shes slated to open for Swift in the spring). That comes, in part, from what theyve each individually shared through their flourishing solo careers. The beloved indie trio is on the cover of Rolling Stone's February issue, wearing suits and staring down the camera in the same way that Nirvana did in 1994.. Boygenius is a rare collection of revered young songwriters, each with their own unique ability to make their fans cry. Dacus: Were you about to say February can suck a dick? Her indie folk music typically centers around acoustic guitar and electronic production, with melancholic lyrical themes. Except for those guys. @lucy dacus. Thanks, Mom, Baker says to her bandmate, beaming. If you rewrite your life, Dacus sings, can I still play a part?. "Phoebe was like, 'You have . Thats like so sweet.. The line Salt in my lungs recalls the Dacus-sung boygenius track Salt in the Wound, while later, a melody from Bridgers Savior Complex surfaces. It must have happened to me like a million times in the first year of touring. The story thats being told here is that people can find other people that they love and work with them without that, eventually, making everyone hate each other. (Also, theres discussion of the fact that Lana Del Rey also pays homage to the very same line in the very same Cohen song on her just-released track Kintsugi, as discussed on last weeks episode. When I think about a live show, Im thinking about that., Bridgers mutters, in the gruff matter of a genius ex-con safe-breaker who swore shed given it all up but just agreed to do one last job: Stakes are so high., Adds Dacus, Those spaces, I think, are sacred.. Do you mind if I be a nerd for a second?, Dacus is constantly writing even on the walk here today. Except for those guys, Bridgers says. November 15, 2018 . I met Phoebe at a show we played together in Eagle Rock, California. IN ANOTHER LIFE, Dacus might be a journalist. It was falling in love., Boygenius self-titled EP, released that fall, stunned fans and critics. Baker, 27, is pure raw-nerve-endings. Id need a break. She orders an orange juice in her oh-so-SoCal speaking voice, and reluctantly accepts water when told OJ is not an option. (Despite this, a man walks up to Bridgers, says, My girlfriend sleeps in a Phoebe Bridgers shirt, and asks for a photo anyway. It was the first time I had arranged chords into my own chosen phrasings and written words of my own instead of listening to someone else's songs. (Polydor/Interscope)The US indie-rock supergroup skewer the male ego on this magnificent meeting of harmonies and minds. Bridgers smiles thinking about another contender. While the song has broader meaning about a dysfunctional relationship . But if you can nail it, its a transcendent piece of art. By Rachel Syme April 1, 2023 Her parents divorced when she was a child, and she found solace in music. On their own, Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus are three accomplished singer-songwriters. Rachel Yoders Nightbitch. She validates those boundaries that people have tried to take from her for her whole life. When wed all go to bed, wed text each other about ideas. She finds potential material midconversation, like during lunch with the Boys, when she said, My birth mother told me that in her fifties she found anger like it was under her bed. That sentence rocked me. The singer posted a number of photos on her Instagram account with Emily. I had an almost completely closed hymen, Bridgers says, as Baker and Dacus laugh hysterically. Dacus makes sure I get a paper towel and a moment to stanch the bleeding. The way theyve built themselves into this prominence, without doing anything much other than writing really good songs, feels remarkable. The instantly relatable song became her Thunder Road. (Although she recently placed second to Bruce Springsteen on her dads Spotify Wrapped, her dad told her, You know youre my number-one songwriter and always will be.), Hayley Williams remembers how much she clung to Night Shift amid her 2017 divorce. They check in on each others attempted vibes. Tudzin worked separately on The Record in Bob Dylans old tour bus in the yard. Theres always gonna be tension in the studio just because it is a creative and emotional experience but everything was discussed really openly. Yet equality has always driven the bandmates, all of whom identify as queer: There is no frontwoman, and everyone is encouraged to suggest or veto ideas. The boygenius cover, photographed by Ryan Pfluger, casts Bridgers in the center as frontman Kurt Cobain . She loves to cook, and will grill vegetables and seafood: salmon teriyaki, tuna steaks, and fish tacos with tilapia and grouper. That extends to the boygenius fan base: We have the kind of superfans that John Lennon had, but some of our relatives dont think we make any money. Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker are three of the best - and most obsessed-over - songwriters today. Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus (the boys) are Boygenius (stylized in all lowercase), the alternative/indie rock band that released its sublime debut album, "the record" on Friday, March 31. Our boy! Dacus coos. I never thought that a major was what I needed or the kind of trajectory that I aspired to, explains Baker. This is what its like to be with all three members of boygenius: Everything is on the table, from mucous membranes to what it would be like if Shakespeare learned the music software Ableton. Keeping interiority while sharing so much of yourself with the world is hard, she says, biting into a tempeh BLT. All of a sudden, she's playing with a full band, or at least the illusion of one (Baker still played all the instruments on the record herself) and it bangs. Phoebe was like, You have to start titling the songs. Baker says, erupting in laughter. Where Stranger in the Alps focused on desire and depression, her sophomore. Like, When are you going to get a real job?, When Bridgers mom got that tattoo recently, it was actually at a Friendsgiving gathering Bridgers hosted (her assistants roommate is a tattoo artist). Im old school, a one-man guy, Baker replies. Directly after the albums release, the next big moment will be Coachella. When Bakers tuna poke doesnt arrive, a concerned Bridgers asks the waiter of its whereabouts. If you've ever been to one of her intimate live shows, you'll know this: alone on stage, she uses only a guitar, a keyboard and a loop pedal. I could just go play these gigs in bigger venues than Im used to playing, and then I could just continue to go home and go help my neighbors mow their lawn., She eyes the menu. Dacus chimes in: Youre considering! And then Covid was this built-in boundary [where] we cant see each other, so it was nice to realize what I actually wanted: to be able to talk with no strings attached. Not long after our interview, Bridgers dad died at age 60. During that time, they were asked about reuniting in nearly every interview. I was watching them color outside the lines in a way that they dont in their solo projects, Tudzin says. Bridgers has been making music for a while and released her first album in 2017. Our interpersonal dynamics the collective, not the individual are part of the personality of the band. They were acclaimed songwriters living parallel lives, yet they sounded like one cohesive, awesome unit partly because of how much they relate to one another on a fundamental level. I wasnt like, Damn, I need to get better. I was like, Im God., That prompts Baker to share her early days in a bro-y hardcore music scene where all she wanted was to shred so much that everyone will have to respect my band, like, Look how many f scales I can do f fast, look look look look look. And around you guys, I feel like I can be the try-hard pick me guy I wanna be because thats all I ever was. It hurts me to even say that because I wish that I could in some way fulfill a reciprocal relationship with my fans, but I think the three of us feel the need to assert ourselves as individuals . Highlight Reel 12. By Brian Hiatt. At the home in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, that she purchased in March, shell make them with orange Angostura bitters and simple syrup, topped with a slice of orange. Recorded in Memphis, TN, the record weaves together unflinching autobiography with assimilated experience and . Ill give them each a little kiss on the head and tuck them in.. When I write for us, it feels like a really awesome, beautiful math problem. The supergroup, consisting of best friends Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker, formed and released their critically well-received self-titled EP in 2018. Likely I banged the lip of my metal water bottle into my gums, while sipping, without really noticing. It's like the Central Perk of Memphis. Together they are boygenius - beloved indie-rock supergroup. Gordon Lightfoot: 10 Essential Songs by the Canadian Folk Icon, Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian Folk-Rock Troubadour, Dead at 84, Stagecoach 2023: Lainey Wilson, Chris Stapleton, and Nostalgia Dominate Countrys California Fest, Ed Sheeran Plays Van Morrison Song as Proof He Didn't Steal From Marvin Gaye in Copyright Trial, New Jeans, Rina Sawayama, Saweetie Among Gold House A100 Honorees, Newsmax Accuses Murdochs of Designing a New-World-Order Globalist Kill List Against Tucker Carlson, DeSantis' Disney Board Will Countersue the Mouse, 'Redfall' is a Decent Looter Shooter With an Identity Crisis. Phoebe Bridgers is the first to admit that she's not reinventing herself on her new album. Options by Pedro The Lion. See their exclusive Coachella photo diary. Now a proper big-time photo shoot is unfolding. She brews some tea, brings it into her office, lights a candle, and picks a tarot card. Label: Interscope Records. Before The Record, the album had many possible titles, all of which reflect typical boygenius humor: American Idiot, The White Album, Beach Boys, and so on. Baker throws her head back cackling, her smile widening. Once in costume, Baker does pullups on a hanging pipe then lands on a mattress. The two wolves inside us can be self-hatred and self-aggrandizing, Bridgers explains. A.M. This is the only project where I have to practice anybody else having any say other than me. Boygenius members: Lucy Dacus, left, Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker. The band Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus played "Ketchum, ID," "True Blue" and "Emily I'm Sorry" first. When we started talking to labels, it was just whos going to give us the best deal, let us own our masters, give us the most freedom and resources creatively.. I was vegan, I didn't drink, so it was just the most basic shit ever. We dig deep into the magic of Boygenius Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, and Julien Baker and gently correct their facts on Leonard Cohen. I think I would have been expelled if it wasnt for Seora Robinson.. Check out six years worth of episodes in the archive, including in-depth, career-spanning interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Mariah Carey, Halsey, Neil Young, Snoop Dogg, Brandi Carlile, Phoebe Bridgers, Rick Ross, Alicia Keys, the National, Ice Cube, Taylor Hawkins, Willow, Keith Richards, Robert Plant, Dua Lipa, Questlove, Killer Mike, Julian Casablancas, Sheryl Crow, Johnny Marr, Scott Weiland, Liam Gallagher, Alice Cooper, Fleetwood Mac, Elvis Costello, John Legend, Donald Fagen, Charlie Puth, Phil Collins, Justin Townes Earle, Stephen Malkmus, Sebastian Bach, Tom Petty, Eddie Van Halen, Kelly Clarkson, Pete Townshend, Bob Seger, the Zombies, Gary Clark Jr., and many others. Best known for her work as a solo singer-songwriter, she is also known for being part of the musical groups boygenius (with Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus) and Better Oblivion Community Center (with Conor Oberst).Bridgers made her solo debut with the studio album Stranger in the Alps (2017 . The Record was recorded over a month in early 2022 at Shangri-La Studios in Malibu, with everyone sleeping on the premises and grinding out 10-hour days. At Bridgers's instigation, they regrouped to record a full. (modern). But the group knows its going to be supported out there, no matter what. Dacus, 27, delicately sets a scene too evocative to deny. Hair by dita vushaj at tracey mattingly using leonor greyl. But for The Record, they say, Interscope made the most sense. The boys, as they call themselves, are Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, and Julien Baker, each of whom has also put out an excellent solo album in the past five years. Bridgers: You let me have food on my face. On a March afternoon in a mattress store in the Uncut Gems part of Manhattan, Boygenius the potent assemblage of Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus and Phoebe Bridgers is trying on Victorian gowns. I met Lucy, at a show in DC. In the context of the bands ascendance, the grander sweep of the production feels only right. Covid happened, and I didnt feel superproductive, she says. I'm gonna buy that. Fashion direction by alex badia. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. Julien Baker. Just an adult being like, What youre doing is important and it matters. Next comes a collective dreamy recollection of said teachers: Libby Germer, Georgianne Stinnett, Mr. Wilhite. When Dacus and Bridgers hop on the mattress too, they accidentally send Baker careening, and cackling, onto an adjoining mattress. Phoebe Bridgers: "Graceland Too" The first time I heard this song, I knew immediately it would become one of my favorites of the year. The singer-songwriters Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus have all been recipients of such buzz. I think my life is better sober. As Dacus recalls, Julien would often write a song, put it in the Google Drive, and just not announce that there was a new song in there. We dig deep into the magic of Boygenius Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, and Julien Baker and gently correct their facts on Leonard Cohen, The new Rolling Stone Music Now episode explores the music of Boygenius Boygenius (from left: Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, and Julien Baker), The Genius of Boygenius: Inside the Supergroup Saving Rock, You Are Grimes Now: Inside Musics Weird AI Future, Andor Star Diego Luna on Bold Season Two and Why Hes Done With Cassian. The band cliche is a cliche for a reason, she said, whereas this was three awesome mates who wanna hang out together. Photography assistance by nicol biesek. Marks says there was somewhat of a morning routine at the studio: Baker would go trail running while Dacus would read tarot cards to get a vibe check., Marks would also join Bridgers in yoga sessions: Such a luxury for me, Marks says. Who knows, maybe all three of them will make out. To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. And I had bought [Death Cab For Cuties] Transatlanticism and Control by Pedro The Lion at the same time. Dacus left Richmond for Philadelphia in 2019. Its a telling line for music that blazes with feeling, and is unabashed about drolly skewering and examining the male ego (see: songs about internalised notions of masculinity and lines such as And I am not an old man having an existential crisis at a Buddhist monastery writing horny poetry on a track called Leonard Cohen). We're all. She was open about her sobriety while doing press for her debut, Sprained Ankle, and 2017s Turn Out the Lights, but later, she says, I started dismantling every dimension of my belief system and values, she says. We were able to commiserate about the less enjoyable aspects of this job, Dacus says. Its harder to maintain, and its been an ongoing thing that requires a lot of humility., I wonder how Baker feels about fame and whether shell welcome an increase in attention after The Record. In 2018, singer-songwriters Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus and Phoebe Bridgers, all known for their solo acts, debuted as boygenius with their self-titled EP. Find it here at the podcast provider of your choice, go directly to Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or just press play above. (I think of the novelist Ottessa Moshfegh telling the New Yorker that in a theoretical autocratic society shed be uncomfortably high up.) Baker brims over with youngest-sibling nervous energy. Heatwave 3. Bridgers and Baker, along with their fellow bandmate Lucy Dacus, released boygenius's self-titled debut EP in 2018. It got Oscar nominee Kristen Stewart to make a movie about the group. Song in E 10. From left: Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker of boygenius. Phoebe Lucille Bridgers (born August 17, 1994) is an American indie musician from Los Angeles, California. And dont even think about February. Catherine Marks, whos worked with the Killers, Alanis Morissette and Foals, co-produced the album with the band. She didn't give me explicit advice or anything or a neat little anecdote. (Noam Galai / Getty Images for Tibet House US), Dacus on Boygenius performing at Coachella: When I was a teen, I went to festivals, and those shows are burned into my head. 3/4 (4.75/5 stars) Fast forward to 2023. boygenius (the name is stylized in all lower case) is a combination of three indie women who've individually put out terrific albums, capable writers in their own right. Im just like, I made something tight.
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