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Julien Baker, a Tennessee-born indie-folk singer, is back with a new track, "Hardline," off her upcoming album, Little Oblivions, which is set to be released on February 26th, 2021. The track came out on January 13th, 2021, and speaks of substance abuse, depression, and the want to be given mercy. It's a pop-rock track, of the slow-indie style.
It's a truly honest, beautiful, heart-pulling song. "Hardline" is a song that is full of real emotion and passion. It's a track that almost feels like therapy for the listener. It feels like being happy and crying out of pain at the same time, which sums up a lot of Julien Baker's music.
"Hardline" is accompanied by a stop-motion animation video. Julien Baker says of the story behind it, "A few years ago I started collecting travel ephemera again
with a loose idea of making a piece of art with it. I had been touring pretty consistently since 2015 and had been traveling so much that items like plane tickets and hotel keycards didn’t have much novelty anymore. So I saved all my travel stuff and made a little collage of a house and a van out of it. I wanted to incorporate it into the record and when we were brainstorming ideas for videos we came across Joe Baughman and really liked his work so we reached out with the idea of making a stop-motion video that had similar aesthetic qualities as the house I built did. I don’t know why I have the impulse to write songs or make tiny sculptures out of plane tickets. But here it is anyway: a bunch of things I’ve collected and carried with me that I’ve re-organized into a new shape."
Below is the tracklist to Little Oblivions.
1. Hardline
2. Heatwave
3. Faith Healer
4. Relative Fiction
5. Crying Wolf
6. Bloodshot
7. Ringside
8. Favor
9. Song in E
10. Repeat
11. Highlight Reel
12. Ziptie
Watch Julien Baker do a beautiful acoustic cover of Soundgarden's "Fell On Black Days" here:
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