boygenius - boygenius (November 9, 2018) Album • Page 17

Give em hell

 

Goosebumps the whole way through listening to this, just too good

 

This is so great. Can't wait to seem them in Toronto

 

I remember thinking how the initial first 3 singles felt like separate corners in terms of creativity:

Obviously, Stay Down - Julien, Me & My Dog - Phoebe, Bite the Hand - Lucy

But after listening to the EP over and over again, the other three tracks really help tie those three separate corners together. I get a better sense of their cohesiveness as a band better with the newer songs.

I think Souvenir is the highlight for me. The ending to that song is so damn heartbreaking.

 

yeeeuhhh

 

I think Ketchum, ID is my favorite right now, specifically because of those lyrics. So good.

 

I thought I ordered the vinyl but I can’t find an email confirming that I did. What would the email say? When I try to search for matador nothing comes up.

 

“When you cut a hole into my skull
Do you hate what you see
Like I do?”

Oof.

 

My friends and I got a cabin up in Ketchum, ID on Friday, and I was listening to this EP on the drive up there and then saw that there's a song called "Ketchum, ID" and I thought I was in the Twilight Zone or something.

 

AOTY (and yes I know it's an EP, but I don't care)

 

That sucks, unfortunately in my personal experience when you contact distributors about it they kind of shrug it off, and give you a line like "Unfortunately, it happens sometimes"

 

Ketchum, ID is also easily the best song I've heard this year. What a beautiful piece of art.

 

These songs are gorgeous. This is such a cool thing. I hope they do all of these on the tour. They have to right?

The guitar tones in Souvenier, the lyrics of Ketchum, ID, and the rock and roll of Salt In the Wound. My goodness. These artists truly compliment each other so well and have managed to take three different styles and maks such a cohesive, powerful EP, despite being able to pretty clearly tell who is the main writer of each song.

It’s also having the added bonus of helping me appreciate Stranger In the Alps a lot more. It never fully clicked with me before but I am into it now.

 

Yeah this got me to go back and re-listen to Historian. Dacus was the only of the three I couldn't get into. Definitely hearing her work in a new way now though.

I'm trying to sustain the high I get from this ep, really wish it was a full album!

 

I feel like I’m in the minority in loving Lucy’s stuff the most of the three
I like Julien and Phoebe’s solo stuff but way prefer this to anything I’ve heard by them

 

Phoebe is my favorite artist of the last several years easily and Stranger is one of my all time favorite albums

They're all great though

 

I love Phoebe's album, but Julien's stuff seems more bland the further I get away from it. Really am digging Lucy though.

 

i will beat you all up for talking shit about any of them

 

Julien is still my personal favorite

 

Comparisons are always fun until someone calls Julien Baker bland.

 

I'm really happy this EP introduced me to Lucy. Historian is a fantastic album.

 

They are all incredibly talented young artists and it's going to be a thrill to watch them continue to grow over the coming years and that's all we really need to worry about.

 

How big do you think they will all get? Selling out two nights in Chicago is pretty big but how high up can they get popularity wise?

 

Well I meant grow more as musicians tbh. I think we could see them all get as big as each other (as opposed to now where I think it's more Julien>Phoebe>Lucy). Actually Lucy probably has the most potential to go farther. I think they all have potential for a Courtney Barnett level of success, individually. But who really knows, anything could happen.

 

This came in the mail today!