FOR FANS OF: Haim, Joan Baez, Hozier
Julien Baker, a singer-songwriter from Tennessee, released her third studio album, Little Oblivions, on February 26th, 2021. Her music is often autobiographical, speaking of her life as a young woman who was raised in a devout Christian household, who struggled with addiction and recovery. Little Oblivions is a new chapter on Baker's road to full recovery, and it's a beautiful, melancholy, and comforting record.
The tracks on Little Oblivions are full of lyrics that speak of pain, of the pain we subconsciously and sometimes consciously inflict on ourselves and others, specifically during recovery. Julien Baker's voice is soothing, almost heartbreaking, over soft post-rock instrumentals. I love this record so much. My favorite tracks are "Heatwave," "Relative Fiction," and "Bloodshot."
I'm unfamiliar with her past records, so I can't compare it to them, but, Little Oblivions is, to me, simply so breathtaking and beautiful. It's a record I want to listen to over and over, finding solace and reassurance in it. It has such a huge emotion pull on me, it makes me feel how Haim's Women In Music Pt. III did last summer – seen, as if my own emotions and being was put to music and written in words far better than I could ever write.
Little Oblivions is everything I could want in a record and more. It's authentic, it's real, it's comforting, it's honest. It's definitely one the best records of 2021.
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