Boygenius' new album The Record shows the supergroup finding a style At some point of their working relationship, Boygenius members realized one huge life-fact they all had in common, Dacus says: We all benefited from people not telling us that we were s as children. Baker and Bridgers agree, smiling, and Dacus continues: Maybe the earlier you start, the sooner you get to something that you feel, that does the trick, that you can be proud of. My parents would let me get one CD at Best Buy when they went in for appliances or whatever and I remember being in the habit of buying a whole record and not knowing what it sounded like. Produced by rhianna rule. So, yeah, even though shes kind of this godlike writer, I think shes out of this world and deeply human., Its not infrequent for journalists to tell Bridgers how lucky she is. Baker: February can weve talked about this. No! And now the astrology-loving, early rising, slightly witchy 25 . Their emotionally intense guitar music tapped into the qualities that made rock the music of a generation several generations back making it feel like it just might be that again. Its so hard to relate to people. I try to write more nuanced things than that.. The boygenius book club can get weird, especially when a sex scene in Elif Batumans Either/Or comes up. Boygenius was on my mind a lot, and we had been texting, like, Oh, my God, what the fuck is happening on the Earth? I just wanted to talk to my friends. Wow. Rest in peace dad, she wrote. She brought the most to the table., The trio took two writing trips Healdsburg, California, in April 2021, and Malibu in August 2021 and worked via text, in a group chat thats been going strong since 2018. Baker, 27, is standing in the sand with a hot-pink T-shirt tucked under a black sweater. Our band Starkillers, before I put out Sprained Ankle, played this show in Pittsburgh. I should put that in a song!, Dacus was adopted and raised devoutly Christian in Richmond, Virginia; she chronicles that upbringing which included church four times a week in Home Video. Makeup by amber dreadon at a-frame. I want to build a whole world when I make anything and I feel like youre very similar. Bridgers nods and says, Definitely. The record has sonic influences, says Lucy Dacus, but, on a deeper level, were influenced by the space and opportunity to make bad art for a long time.. 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. I just sat in my dressing room eating my little hummus tray and before I left I timidly tapped on their door. 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 . We were able to commiserate about the less enjoyable aspects of this job, Dacus says. Hardline, the first track on 25-year-old singer-songwriter Julien Baker's third album, Little Oblivions, is a statement of intent. I feel like I had a deep engagement with songs that even I didn't immediately like and learned to pick apart music by returning to a smaller catalogue. Three songwriters in their 20s Lucy Dacus, Phoebe Bridgers, and Julien Baker performed on one bill. It's like the Central Perk of Memphis. 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. Largely, those are healthy discourses. It means that her heart-on-sleeve lyrics which are forthright about addiction and depression stand out above all else. The late-November sky is the precise shade of a cerulean crayon, and the lighting is almost too perfect. Thanks, Mom, Baker says to her bandmate, beaming. We were like, Yo! Ingenious of Boygenius - Leona Zerezghi, St. Michael's Catholic Grammar 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. "I n another life we were arsonists," goes a lyric on this first album from Boygenius, the supergroup consisting of Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus - three of the most . 'Some Element Of Magic': boygenius Is Having A Helluva Good Time Lewis The Great Divorce. Any given point on the record belongs to any given band member Bakers power howls on $20, Bridgers aching confessions on Emily Im Sorry and the results are their own lovely, defined gems.