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Over 1:28 02. Appointments 4:33 03. Turn Out The Lights 3:24 04. Shadowboxing 3:53 05. Sour Breath 3:04 06. Televangelist 4:52 07. Everything To Help You Sleep 4:21 08. Happy To Be Here 4:16 09. Hurt Less 3:59 10. Even 3:33 11. Claws In Your Back 4:38 ┌────────┐ ────┤ Notes ├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── └────────┘ A Memphis, Tennessee-based singer/songwriter with a knack for finding the shaky ground between heart-wrenching and cathartic, Julien Baker's stark and soulful music invokes names like Bon Iver, Daughter, and Natalie Prass. Baker honed her skills while playing in her high-school band, Forrister, with whom she continued to perform while attending college. After writing a batch of songs that didn't seem to fit the band's more rock-oriented vibe, Baker headed to Matthew E. White's Spacebomb Studios in Richmond, Virginia to begin recording what would eventually become her solo debut, 2015's critically acclaimed "Sprained Ankle". Issued by 6131 Records, it reached number 23 on the Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart and led to an invitation to join the Matador Records roster. The label released her equally intimate follow-up, "Turn Out The Lights", in 2017. Her Matador Records debut, "Turn Out The Lights" is the much-anticipated follow-up to the ruminating 2015 breakthrough of Tennessee singer/songwriter Baker. While "Sprained Ankle" was recorded in a professional studio in Richmond, Virginia, it was with help from a friend who was interning there, and Baker, an 18-year-old college freshman at the time, was the sole performer. Unexpectedly - to the songwriter - it was picked up by 6131 Records and eventually made Billboard's Heatseekers Albums chart in 2016. She recorded 2017's "Turn Out The Lights" at the legendary Ardent Studios in Memphis, emerging with a sturdier sound and accompaniment that includes not only guitar and piano but also strings, woodwinds, and additional vocals. The album even opens with a brief chamber overture that both sets a melancholy tone and establishes the expanded sound. Still, it's an intimate, drums-free affair, one that emphasizes lyrics and raw emotion. The candid content and intense vocal delivery that made her reputation continue - her lyrics dwell on personal struggles and the pursuit of hope, as on lead single "Appointments". It compromises with 'Maybe it's all gonna turn out all right/And I know that it's not but I have to believe that it is'. That song makes a spare anthem of 'I have to believe that it is' with mainly piano and arpeggiated electric guitar. When churning, echoing guitar kicks in later on "Turn Out The Lights", it underscores full-voiced howling that reaches a level not heard on her debut. The record returns repeatedly to these swelling, anthemic moments in between more weary, half-murmured ones. At times, the smoother production seems at odds with Baker's brittle delivery, such as on "Sour Breath", which ends with a belted solo vocal. It's a heavy album, regardless, with remarks like 'I know whats in my cannibal chest' and songs like "Hurt Less", a piano-and-strings entry that recounts why Baker didn't used to and then started wearing a seatbelt. Cathartic and wrecked, "Turn Out The Lights" is the type of album that will be uncommonly relatable to some and unbearable to others. For those who are receptive, the songwriter's ferocious authenticity connects in spite of, rather than in concert with, the more dramatic accompaniment here. ┌────────┐ ────┤ Salute ├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── └────────┘ r35 BERC NuHS GRAVEWISH FWYH