boygenius – boygenius EP – out on Matador / Rhythmethod.
L-R: Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus. Photo credit: Kristy Benjamin
“Baker, Bridgers and Dacus… provide an insight into the future of rock” – Noisey
“Devastating beauty” – Pitchfork
“Alt-rock dream team” – Sunday Times
WATCH:
boygenius make their late-night television debut on November 5th, playing ‘Me & My Dog’ which Pitchfork deemed a “Best New Track”, on Late Night with Seth Meyers.
Julien Baker and Phoebe Bridgers with Lucy Dacus are boygenius.
Baker, Bridgers, and Dacus formed boygenius after booking a tour together, but the trio had subconsciously been in the works for longer than that. Through a series of tours and performances together, and chance encounters that led to friendships – including Bridgers’ and Dacus’ first in-person meeting backstage at a Philadelphia festival, greenroom hangouts that felt instantly comfortable and compatible, a couple of long email chains and even a secret handshake between Baker and Dacus – the lyrically and musically arresting singer-songwriters and kindred spirits got to know each other on their own terms.
With gut-wrenchingly personal yet easily relatable verses and spare, lilting melodic arrangements, all three are leading a new rock vanguard that values unflinching self-awareness and unassailable songcraft. Baker’s sophomore LPTurn Out the Lights and Bridgers’ debut Stranger in the Alps (Dead Oceans) swept best-of-2017 lists, while Dacus’ meditation on loss, Historian, has already become one of 2018’s most lauded releases.
