In the bio that accompanies the album, Baker lovingly says the hardcore recording schedule is the result of the songwriters - whose tight-knit friendship predates their supergroup and grew, in part, out of their shared early experiences in the music industry - being "at least one type of the same psycho. They spent 10 hours in the studio per day, every day, for a month. Baker made a Google Drive each member started adding songs by January 2022, the three of them went to Malibu, Calif. After that, each member went back to her individual career - Baker and Dacus each released level-up third records Bridgers collaborated with everyone from Conor Oberst to Taylor Swift, and her sophomore solo album earned her Grammy nominations - and all politely declined to answer frequent questions about when the band was getting back together.īut in June 2020, unbeknownst to the rest of the world, Bridgers tentatively sent Baker and Dacus a demo of a new song and asked if boygenius could be resurrected. "My life is defined by my friends," Dacus recently told Weekend Edition, and, at its heart, the record - the band's aptly titled first full-length album - is a celebration of that fact.Įach of the three members of boygenius had promising solo careers when they formed the group in 2018 and released a self-titled EP, critically acclaimed for its elegant songwriting and rapturously beloved by fans who saw the trio as a whip-smart Holy Trinity of indie rock. The first track on boygenius' record poses a question, sung by three voices in harmony: "Who would I be without you?" It's not that the three songwriters of boygenius - Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus - want to imagine possible futures or interrogate the past instead, they're asking the question as a reminder to cherish our most formative relationships, to honor the vital role these intimacies can play in shaping our very sense of self. On the record, the members of boygenius craft songs about how we care for each other, why we choose each other and how this kind of closeness can transform us.
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