JULIEN BAKER - Turn Out The Lights LP pop whose mesmerizing stage persona was

whose mesmerizing stage persona was at once childlike and terrifying

It's hard to know exactly what that means but part of it seems to be about looking out rather than in

This album has a dark

Fashioned after soft folk rock arrangements and glorious riffing

JULIEN BAKER - Turn Out The Lights LP pop whose mesmerizing stage persona wasIndie Songwriter music has a particularly massive, ethereal, depressive quality to it. Think of Phoebe Bridgers' Punisher (2020) or Dan Barrett's Giles Corey (2011). Their dark and large atmosphere is almost irreplicable in other contexts. This genre holds some of the most ornate and hopelessly emotional pieces of modern music. Julien Baker's sound fits right in.