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Turn Out the Lights
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Turn Out the Lights
Artist
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Julien Baker
Label
Matador
Catalogue Number
OLE11296
Release Date
October 27, 2017

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.

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Digital Tracklist

  1. 1 Over 1:28 Buy

    Over

  2. 2 Appointments 4:33 Buy

    Appointments

  3. 3 Turn Out the Lights 3:23 Buy

    Turn Out the Lights

  4. 4 Shadowboxing 3:53 Buy

    Shadowboxing

  5. 5 Sour Breath 3:04 Buy

    Sour Breath

  6. 6 Televangelist 4:52 Buy

    Televangelist

  7. 7 Everything to Help You Sleep 4:21 Buy

    Everything to Help You Sleep

  8. 8 Happy to Be Here 4:16 Buy

    Happy to Be Here

  9. 9 Hurt Less 3:59 Buy

    Hurt Less

  10. 10 Even 3:33 Buy

    Even

  11. 11 Claws in Your Back 4:38 Buy

    Claws in Your Back

Julien Baker

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