Do you want to be one of the first in DC to hear the new Julien Baker album “Turn Out the Lights” 2 days BEFORE its released on Friday 10/27?
We’ve teamed up with Matador Records to bring you a FREE exclusive pre-release listening event upstairs.
In addition to our usual raffles for Songbyrd Prize Bags® filled with promo CDs, vinyl and posters, we will be taking entries for a special nationwide drawing for three lucky winners of Julien Baker prizes:
—a Signed LP
—a T-Shirt
—a Tote Bag
—a Coffee Mug
—a Bag of Dunkin Donuts coffee (Julien’s fav!)
—$50 music shopping Gift Card
http://www.songbyrddc.com/dc-record-store/10-27-julien-baker-turn-out-the-lights/
Julien Baker’s solo debut, Sprained Ankle, was one of the most widely hailed works of 2015. The album, recorded by an 18-year-old and her friend in only a few days, was a bleak yet hopeful, intimate document of staggering experiences and grace, centered entirely around Baker’s voice, guitar, and unblinking honesty. The album appeared on year-end lists everywhere from NPR Music to New York Magazine’s Vulture.
With Turn Out the Lights, Baker returns to a much bigger stage, but with the same core of breathtaking vulnerability and resilience. From its opening moments — when her chiming, evocative melody is accompanied by swells of strings — Turn Out the Lights throws open the doors to the world without sacrificing the intimacy that has become a hallmark of her songs. The album was recorded at the legendary Ardent Studios in her hometown of Memphis, TN, and mixed by Craig Silvey (The National, Arcade Fire). This evolution from Sprained Ankle’s intentionally spare production allows Baker — who is still the album’s sole producer and writer — greater scope and freedom. Strings and woodwinds now shade the corners of her compositions, and Baker takes to piano rather than guitar on several tracks, pushing the 21-year-old Baker’s work to cinematic heights of intensity.