I had just come out of being in a heavy band, and I think that I was of the mentality that I should try to challenge myself to be as minimalist as possible because that would mean it was tasteful…” she laughs. “I could be all cryptic and refuse to answer questions about how real the songs are. “One, because [there are] people who will reply whenever I’m like, ‘Hey, we should think about reevaluating nationalism’ or, ‘Hey, we should try to vote for better policy’ [with] ‘I love you.’ It makes me think, like, everybody talks about being inside of an echo chamber, but my artist Twitter is for promoting myself in a very specific capacity.”, She adds, “I just sit here and just wonder about Twitter.”. The day before our interview, we’d virtually met on Twitter after I made a mittens-clad Bernie Sanders meme featuring her new album, Little Oblivions, as part of my series of Bernie memes. From online personality to drill superstar-in-the-making, Ivorian Doll is charging forward and taking no prisoners. During our conversation, I note that as someone who also has OCD, many of her new record’s lyrics reflect what it’s like to have the obsessive thoughts type of OCD, known as “Pure O,” by way of obsessively thinking about past mistakes. Find It At: AMAZON When Under the Radar first spoke with Julien Baker in the spring of 2016, it was a few weeks after her headline-grabbing round of performances at that year's South by Southwest festival and less than five months since her debut album, Sprained Ankle — a dazzlingly intimate album made over two days and with zero expectations of an … Julien Baker, “That makes me feel like, okay, well, as painful as it is, I need to talk about [my experience with relapsing] in interviews, because maybe it could benefit somebody or normalize it.”. “I’m afraid to give a bad interview because it’s like this collective public catalog reflects the person that I am. Baker is understandably wary of how she discusses her personal life in interviews. It’s going to be like when you’re kids and you all rehearse the same story for your parents. It’s lifted from her upcoming new album ‘Little Oblivions’. “I was going to not talk about this in an interview, but the thing I hate about that culture – not those people, not those individuals – but that behavior is distressing to me for many reasons, she explains. No. The 25-year-old singer has never shied away from writing brutally honest lyrics but now she’s at a point of recognition where fans are curious about her personal life. , her latest album that’s out on Feb. 26, revisits similar themes with a heavier sound that introduces drums for the first time – reminiscent of her band from her teenage years. It’s not a new feeling,” Baker says. If anything, she’s accepted the uncertainty along the way. Baker notes that while her sophomore album, 2017’s Turn Out the Lights, was made with the awareness of a newfound fanbase, she changed her approach for Little Oblivions. While most musicians often try to escape their own head, Baker seems to dive to the sort of mental depths that induce the bends. She still feels that anxiety to an extent. ‘Little Oblivions’ by Julien Baker Review: Climbing Back From Rock Bottom The 25-year-old singer-songwriter confronts her struggle with substance abuse on an album that embraces melody. Enter your email address for weekly updates on all things DIY. During our conversation, I note that as someone who also has OCD, many of her new record’s lyrics reflect what it’s like to have the obsessive thoughts type of OCD, known as “Pure O,” by way of obsessively thinking about past mistakes. “But, at the end of the day, I think I just had to radically reevaluate my priorities. Julien Baker performs at the Memphis Chapter Grammy Membership Celebration at Halloran Centre at the Orpheum on June 19, 2017. In the interview, she mentioned that at that point in her life, she had been fully sober for “six years, maybe.” But at the time of the interview’s publication date, Baker was struggling with a relapse. and returned to Middle Tennessee State University to finish her college degree for a semester. Tags: “For both of the previous records, songs were finished as they were in my brain, and I collected them,” she explains, emphasising the difference this time around. Despite the success she's found over the last several years, Julien Baker is as big of a music fan as ever. Mp3 Download. It’s not a new feeling,” Baker says. As she begins to reflect back on her journey from Sprained Ankle to Little Oblivions, her voice quiets and her gaze shifts, carefully processing her thoughts. Some years ago, at a christian writing conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan, twenty year old Julien Baker made a power point presentation about how hardcore music was an analogue to the tenets of the gospel. Julien Baker plays stripped down folk-rock that sounds like burned-out hymns. “I think I spent a lot of that time - once I had the luxury of time to reflect - re-evaluating my perspective on who I was as a person, and my values. Listen along to this lot…, February 2021 ft Goat Girl, Pale Waves, Rico Nasty, slowthai. Official website of musician Julien Baker. after I made a mittens-clad Bernie Sanders meme featuring her new album. Greg Campbell / WireImage for The Recording Academy. The interview sees Baker discussing depression, OCD, religion, and her LGBTQ+ identity. . “Mostly, the thing that’s been taking up the most apprehensive space in my brain is how am I going to talk about the stuff I put on this record? Featuring backing vocals from Lucy Dacus and Phoebe Bridgers! Julien Baker is known as a grand master of introspection. But, after almost four solid years on the road in support of both her solo career and her collaborative project boygenius (with friends and collaborators Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus), the time eventually came to slow down. But it’s like, I don’t know why I thought that way! But some fans aren’t satisfied with only knowing what Baker reveals through her music. The last few years have been somewhat of a whirlwind for Julien Baker. Now, there was information about her in the public that showed that in that instance, her personal experience was quite different from what she had shared with GQ. Julien Baker is through with torturing herself, but it’s not because she’s finally found the answer she’s been looking for. Image credit: Alysse Gafkjen. Interview. We spoke with her about her recent personal struggles, 'Little Oblivions' and more. I think they call it the Newly-Weds game. plus Foo Fighters, Arlo Parks, Shame and more. “Julien Baker joins the show this week to discuss her experience with depression and obsessive … Except things weren’t quite that straight-forward. Julien Rose Baker (born September 29, 1995) is an American singer and multi-instrumentalist. She noticed that when she stopped writing songs with an audience in mind, that enabled her to “write with less self-censorship, with less anxiety around saying cringey things or making big admissions,” she says. Born on September 29, 1995, Baker was born in Germantown, and raised in Bartlett, Tennessee. An Interview With Young Phenom Julien Baker. After years of sobriety, the singer experienced a substance abuse relapse, narrated in-depth in. She talks about that, Hanif Abdurraqib, faith, Twitter, and mewithoutyou in this interview. However, 2019 was a difficult year for Baker. But Baker confesses that when she first listened back to it, she cringed upon hearing herself deploy the term “OCD” on the podcast. However, 2019 was a difficult year for Baker. Julien Baker has admitted that she struggled with whether or not to put drums on her new album, Little Oblivions, given the sparse, minimal instrumentation used on her critically acclaimed 2017 album, Turn Out The Lights. We were actually talking about when we have to do interviews separately because we all live in different towns. She’s curious about what it’s like to go viral; she wants to know what my first viral meme was and if I consider myself to be a meme maker. I’m not sad that I was an idealist kid trying to make this romanticised idea of music,” she laughs again. But, after almost four solid years on the road in support of both her solo career … The track is taken from upcoming album ‘Little Oblivions’. By Chris Heat h January 15, 2019 A lot has changed for Baker since 2019. “It already is personally painful to me to admit, like, ‘Hey, when that GQ article where it was me, and Jason Isbell and Steven Tyler talking about sobriety and people were @-ing me on Twitter for it, I was off the wagon,'” she confesses. When I spoke to Julien Baker over the phone, she was on her lunch break. “I wish I could say that I made that decision [to stop touring and go back to school] entirely on my own. Julien Baker’s 2015 debut might have started out as a fun school project, but her intimate mix of indie-folk and dream-pop soon became a word-of-mouth success, catapulting her firmly into the spotlight. I had to come off the road and everything was falling apart around me and I was still making music.”, A Next Management Partners brand takes Baker to darker territory, confronting personal issues she hadn’t expressed previously. But some fans aren’t satisfied with only knowing what Baker reveals through her music. Lebanese ex-army chief testifies in Beirut port blast probe. Julien Baker, the 25-year-old singer-songwriter, has a new album on the way. But notably, Little Oblivions takes Baker to darker territory, confronting personal issues she hadn’t expressed previously. Baker tweeted a response to it, and fans donning portraits of her boygenius bandmate Phoebe Bridgers as their Twitter profile picture replied with variations of “hi julien.” When I bring up those interactions, she admits she’s perplexed by social media and stan culture. , received critical acclaim for its gorgeous, minimalistic sound and gripping lyrics about her relationship with God, queerness, heartache, addiction, and depression. Save this story for later. Continuing to build upon the affecting but deft lyricism that defined her previous two albums, it’s on her newest effort that Julien widens her musical horizons, swapping the stripped-back guitar-and-vocals aesthetic previously explored for something fuller. She adopted a dog named Beans and has spent the past year in therapy. It … It’s gotten to the extent that a group of fervent fans have even looked at Bridgers’ own music for clues on the happenings of Baker’s life. opening up about her struggles with depression and OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) on the podcast. e’s release, Baker’s career has been on the rise, gaining a steady fanbase by being a relatable figure. It’s exactly the album to give us all some much-needed hope. At Chapter 16, thoughts on Chang-rae Lee’s new novel.. “I’d love to just help other people have someone to bounce ideas off of, I’d love to just make music. Baker recently appeared in an episode of Consequence of Sound’s Going There with Dr. Mike, opening up about her struggles with depression and OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) on the podcast. , as part of my series of Bernie memes. this list. What type of content do you plan to share with your subscribers. Julien Baker, the 21-year-old Tennessee singer, discusses the making of her much-anticipated follow-up to 'Sprained Ankle,' 'Turn Out the Lights.' Steven Tyler, Julien Baker, Ben Harper, Jason Isbell, Joe Walsh, and other sober musicians on how to thrive creatively without drugs or booze. “I obsessed about [second album ‘Turn Out The Lights’]; I [had] to create it with the same sparseness because I didn’t want to afford myself embellishments. We’re getting in before the rehearsals! This thing that had ruled my life, and had been my identity for so long - that was the crux of every day for me - just disappeared and I was like, ‘OK, I guess I’m just a person at home’. But like, what would that do except for create a false mystique around something that at the end of the day is really common and mundane?” she notes. The last few years have been somewhat of a whirlwind for Julien Baker.Having first uploaded her starkly gorgeous debut LP ‘Sprained Ankle’ to Bandcamp back in late 2014 - picked up and re-released the following year, before she signed to Matador in 2017 - things have barely stopped since. julien baker performance interview live on kexp at... kexp photo. “You know, I’m gonna be honest,” she offers up, Zooming us from her home in East Nashville, “slowing down put me in a very weird place.” Having completed touring with boygenius back in late 2018, Julien soon found herself with some well-earned time off. I didn’t want to stop touring. Julien Baker plays the End of the Road festival in Wiltshire on September 1. From The Magazine, interview. Reeling From Substance Abuse and Questioning God, Julien Baker Sings Through the Pain Baker found catharsis in her debut 'Sprained Ankle' By Ilana Kaplan • 01/25/16 11:56am. Julian Baker is the cofounder of Baker Brothers Advisors, a New York hedge fund that specializes in biotechnology stocks. The day before our interview. “With this record, I feel a compassion and understanding for the person that I was. 'Turn Out The Lights' out now on Matador Records. Bicep’s ‘Isles’ is the ultimate anti-2021 release: an electronic record made for the club that celebrates cultural unity and diversity. ‘Little Oblivions’ is out 26th February via Matador. The NYPL has an array of events and recommendations for Lunar New Year.. Madeleine Watts recommended books by Australian women at Electric Literature.. Treble reviewed the latest album from Julien Baker.. Full Stop interviewed the people behind Radix Media.. At Bookmunch, delving into Nikesh Shukla’s … Friday, friday, gotta get the best new music this week on Friday…. Having first uploaded her starkly gorgeous debut LP ‘Sprained Ankle’ to Bandcamp back in late 2014 - picked up and re-released the following year, before she signed to Matador in 2017 - things have barely stopped since. Loujain al-Hathloul, Saudi girls’s rights activist, launched from jail. Julien Baker Interview: On … What have the artists said about the song? As soon as we begin what ends up being an hour-long Zoom chat, Julien Baker has decided that we’re starting with her semi-jokingly interviewing me. Thank you for signing up for our newsletter. But with a wider audience, this changed. Playing five shows in four days, the 20-year-old singer/songwriter became one of the festival's breakout acts, taking a victory lap after her 2015 full-length debut, Sprained Ankle, became one of the year's most-acclaimed breakthroughs.She even had what she refers to as … Or I’d love to be a professor and make music in my house,” she says. Julien Baker stops herself to apologize. She looks back at how anxious she felt at the beginning of her career sharing extremely personal experiences. In an interview for KEXP, Julien Baker has said that when writing this song, she wanted it to be one “to bang your head to”. You want brand new holiday-themed songs? “People would print things that I was like, that’s really graphic, I don’t remember saying that,” she recalls. “I was really stubborn. Or at least that was how it used to work. “I don’t know why I’m now telling you the footnotes of my thesis,” she says, with a typical dose of self-consciousness. Baker acknowledges that she wants to be honest about her experiences, but worries that she’s confirming the stereotype of artists “as people who are more or less always entrenched in some kind of mental health battle and usually having a negative relationship with substances.” She adds, “I want to do the right thing but I don’t know what the right thing is.”. JB: I’m gonna sweat. Julien Baker: Oh my god! While she has no plans to discontinue her music career, Baker is looking at ways to redefine her relationship with music — including producing or becoming a session musician. And the timeframe isn’t the only change, heading into third album ‘Little Oblivions’. The Raw Devotion of Julien Baker. Julien Baker: If 1,500 people are gonna see me and they each pay $20, I want to give them everything that I possibly can. She’s a singer-songwriter from Tennessee, a gay Christian who brings up theology in all her interviews, young enough to be considered a wunderkind but an old soul, talking about Kierkegaard and Kant in interviews because they’re what she reads on tour. Because I felt throughout making it this imposter syndrome. I was playing some shows here and there, but largely I was just trying to figure out who I was when my focus wasn’t taken up with the one iteration of myself as a performing artist.”, “With this record, I feel a compassion and understanding for the person that I was.”, In search of some “external accountability” and a way to structure her new abundance of time, Julien instead returned to education and her unfinished course at Middle Tennessee State University, while taking the time to work, and re-work, demos that would go on to become her third record. The 25-year-old singer has never shied away from writing brutally honest lyrics but now she’s at a point of recognition where fans are curious about her personal life. Baker has also been reflecting on the future and is considering getting her master’s degree. The singer-songwriter’s 2015 debut album. With her identity as a musician being built on being genuine and transparent with her fans, Baker felt conflicted. Distant Warfare: A Essential Introduction days, noting that she didn’t know it would have such an expansive reach. The singer-songwriter’s 2015 debut album, Sprained Ankle, received critical acclaim for its gorgeous, minimalistic sound and gripping lyrics about her relationship with God, queerness, heartache, addiction, and depression. But with a wider audience, this changed. Since Sprained Ankle’s release, Baker’s career has been on the rise, gaining a steady fanbase by being a relatable figure. Baker tweeted a response to it, and fans donning portraits of her boygenius bandmate Phoebe Bridgers as their Twitter profile picture replied with variations of “hi julien.” When I bring up those interactions, she admits she’s perplexed by social media and stan culture. This time last year, slowthai’s name was in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. After years of sobriety, the singer experienced a substance abuse relapse, narrated in-depth in Little Oblivions. “I don’t want to take my negative, self-destructive, hurtful behaviors that caused pain to my loved ones and assign it to this thing that I found out through a year of intensive therapy as basically a guidebook to what’s going on in my brain,” she explains. Now, on second LP ‘TYRON’, we find an artist facing his demons but coming out fighting. Because I felt throughout making it this imposter syndrome. Baker started his hedge fund him with his brother, Felix, and it … Little Oblivions, her latest album that’s out on Feb. 26, revisits similar themes with a heavier sound that introduces drums for the first time – reminiscent of her band from her teenage years, Forrister. She noticed that when she stopped writing songs with an audience in mind, that enabled her to “write with less self-censorship, with less anxiety around saying cringey things or making big admissions,” she says. Singer-songwriter Julien Baker talks about living through the past year, songs as a kind of prayer, and making her blistering third album "Little Oblivions." By Jia Tolentin o. October 27, 2017. It has been two weeks since Julien Baker made a triumphal trek through SXSW, but she is still buzzing. As she begins to reflect back on her journey from. If I don’t get it right, I look like a dick, or an idiot, or just a non-compassionate person,” she says. But Baker confesses that when she first listened back to it, she cringed upon hearing herself deploy the term “OCD” on the podcast. “But it’s also OK to be like, ‘I wanna put a drum machine on this song!’”. When I ask about dealing with strangers potentially being intrusive online about what’s going on in her personal life, Baker says it’s what she thinks about the most with this record. It’s gotten to the extent that a group of fervent fans have even looked at Bridgers’ own music for clues on the happenings of Baker’s life. , her voice quiets and her gaze shifts, carefully processing her thoughts. “But this very thought process, though, is an OCD thing to do – to worry about is to go down the list of possible negative interpretations of every single word I say.”. Sorry, but the email address you supplied was invalid and needs to be fixed before you can subscribe to A thickly depressing account of broken trust pulled from a musical mélange, “Favor” affirms Julien Baker’s acumen in self-experimentation. “I wanted to challenge myself to keep things simple [on past records]. Since. The caveat is that she’ll be asked by the press about the deeply personal admissions made on the album. By the summer, Baker canceled her tour dates and returned to Middle Tennessee State University to finish her college degree for a semester. There was no putting a song on a shelf for two months and going back to it.”. If I’m unsuccessful in music as a career, does that mean I stop making music? “I was on a phone call with [boygenius bandmate] Lucy [Dacus] three days ago talking about the difference between normalizing and sensationalizing because I freeze up in these interviews, and I get really awkward because I don’t want to provide so much information that [can be misconstrued as] using it for shock value,” she says. But my friends, just my friends and my crew I tour with – who are the same people and who care for me very much – were like ‘you have to go home,'” says Baker. Baker notes that while her sophomore album, 2017’s, was made with the awareness of a newfound fanbase, she changed her approach for. She’s curious about what it’s like to go viral; she wants to know what my first viral meme was and if I consider myself to be a meme maker. In the interview, she mentioned that at that point in her life, she had been fully sober for “six years, maybe.” But at the time of the interview’s publication date, Baker was struggling with a relapse. In January 2019, Baker was interviewed alongside Steven Tyler and Jason Isbell for a GQ feature about sobriety. Julien Baker is gearing up for the release of Little Oblivions on February 26th, and now she has taken part in an interview on a new episode of mental health-focused podcast Going There.. She grew up in a religious family and participated in church music. “Punk teaches the same inversion of power as the Gospel,” the singer said. “Mostly, the thing that’s been taking up the most apprehensive space in my brain is how am I going to talk about the stuff I put on this record? To contact us about advertising please email contact (at) spin.com, Singer-songwriter on her struggles and moving forward. arrow_upward Load More Similar Videos Early life. Anna Nicolaou is US media correspondent Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first. “Alcoholism, heartbreak, reevaluating your ego… These are all the things people do every damn day and fight through for their entire lives.”. She looks back at the Sprained Ankle days, noting that she didn’t know it would have such an expansive reach. Touring is what I’m competent at.”. “When we’d go into the studio, I would only ever book up to seven days, but that was it. She strives for her openness about dark experiences to be helpful to others who share similar struggles, allowing them to know they’re not alone. In January 2019, Baker was interviewed alongside Steven Tyler and Jason Isbell for a. about sobriety. “I mean, 2019 was a very difficult year,” she says reflectively, nodding to personal issues she found herself grappling with.
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