Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights (New CD)

Julien Baker”s solo debut, Sprained Ankle, was one of the most widely hailed works of 2015. The album, recorded by an 18-yearold and her friend in only a few days, was a bleak yet hopeful, intimate document of staggering experiences and grace, centered entirely around Baker”s voice, guitar, and unblinking honesty. The album appeared on year-end lists everywhere from NPR Music to New York Magazine”s Vulture. With Turn Out the Lights, Baker returns to a much bigger stage, but with the same core of breathtaking vulnerability and resilience. From it”s opening moments – when her chiming, evocative melody is accompanied by swells of strings – Turn Out the Lights throws open the doors to the world without sacrificing the intimacy that has become a hallmark of her songs.

• Over

• Appointments

• Turn Out the Lights

• Shadowboxing

• Sour Breath

• Televangelist

• Everything That Helps You Sleep

• Happy to Be Here

• Hurt Less

• Even

• Claws in Your Back