Julien Baker - Little Oblivions (February 26, 2021; Matador) Album • Page 44

Loved it

Hardline is undeniable and the rest of the singles are all home runs. I haven’t made a personal connection to all the songs in one listen to be able to point out specific things from each that I love, but Ziptie reminded me of excerpts from The Mistake and The Silence from Manchester Orchestra in the best way.

 

This was fun. What an album. Can’t wait to continue to get to know this thing with all of you.

 

It’s so wild how the tables turned and Phoebe is the bigger artist now haha. Surreal to think about that when she opened for Julien on two tours (I’m counting boygenius where she played before Julien each night)

 

The first JB show back is gonna be so sick especially because I won’t have to whisper sing the whole time anymore

 

only song on this I don't really connect with is "Highlight Reel", the rest is absolutely phenomenal. my favourite album from her so far

 

It's gonna take a few more listens for me. I will love this. No doubt in my mind. But there's a lot to process. It's strangely not as immediate as her previous work for me after the very first listen.

 

What do you mean this didn't get BNM????

Julien Baker: Little Oblivions

Also lmao @ misspelling her first name in the strapline

 

going into this one pretty much blind after saying I wouldn’t listen to anything more than the first single.

and uh holy shit!

 

wow good morning thread

this record hasn’t left my head in several days

 

I've got no business praying
I'm finished being good
Now I can finally be okay
In not the way I thought I should

 

I didn’t notice it when it was first released and have still not noticed it on every subsequent listen.

 

I listened as I was grading papers so I was only half focused. I wish there was a little more variety in the song structure/sound, because the whole thing kinda washed over me without any particular song making me pause and look at the name. JB is definitely a lyrics artist, so I assume I will enjoy it more when I sit down with them/on repeated listens.

 

Half focused on grading papers.

 

Relative Fiction.. my god

 

Weirdly the song I had stuck in my head when I woke up was Faith Healer

 

Wait she’s drumming on this!?

 

Please don't hate me but I'm not too crazy about Turn Out The Lights as a whole. This blows it out of the water for me and I'm only on track 5. The last section of Crying Wolf is incredible.

 

She actually plays everything on this!

 

I’m in the same boat. Adore SA, but didn’t love TOTL. Excited to check this out.

 

That's wild! Some fantastic drumming on this thing.

 

Atmospherically this reminds me a bit of The National

 

Yeah, there’s that interview where she said she where she wanted it to sound like the drums were performed by a non-drummer which is funny given how solid the drumming is on this record

 

omg my record is supposed to be delivered today!

it's a sneaky earworm

 

to me it is VERY High Violet/TWFM

 

i knew this would be good but damn