Julien Baker – Turn Out The Lights (Vinyl) Digital 2 on the Billboard 200

2 on the Billboard 200 in the United States

and Galaxie 500 exists again as one of the most enrapturing and glorious bands to emerge from the underground in the past 25 years

DC-based Alemseged Kebede (bass) and Ken Joseph (drums)

Autobahn wraps a mesmerising beat around a sampled collage of car horns

the Catholic church that Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum and producer Nicholas Wilbur converted into a recording studio a decade ago in the small town of Anacortes

Julien Baker – Turn Out The Lights (Vinyl) Digital 2 on the Billboard 200Julien Bakers 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, centred entirely around Bakers voice, guitar, and unblinking honesty. The album appeared on year end lists everywhere from NPR Music to New York Magazines Vulture. With Turn Out the Lights, Baker returns to a