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. Unexpectedly - to the songwriter - it was picked up by 6131 Records and eventually made Billboard's Heatseekers Albums chart in 2016. 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. Enjoy.Her Matador Records debut, Turn Out the Lights is the much-anticipated follow-up to the ruminating 2015 breakthrough of Tennessee singer/songwriter Julien Baker. I can't say enough good things about her music, so just give it a listen if you haven't already and give her any kind of support where you can. Her songs are accompanied by a very haunting, disparate guitar sound that borders the line between folk and ambient, which is obviously a very unique mesh. She's both very open and very relatable, making for a very personal listening experience, as I'm sure it is for a very personal playing experience. Much like her main influences Ben Gibbard and Elliott Smith, and all great writers for that matter, she can say a complex thing in a simple way. What Julien captures are some very tough and emotional topics and convey them in a simple, modest way. They are incredibly personal reflections on some heavyweight subject material. These songs are gorgeously crafted, and the whole thing reads like a poet's diary. A year later it was picked up by 6131 Records and officially released as Sprained Ankle, and its caught a wildfire of attention. Julien Baker is a singer-songwriter from Memphis, Tennessee who self-released her debut album on Bandcamp back in 2014. It's an honesty travesty that I've neglected to include her on this blog for so many months now, so I simply can't excuse waiting any longer. I couldn't agree more with the past few comments about a certain someone needing to be on here.
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