Julien Baker
The Memphis-area singer-songwriter whose Sprained Ankle (2015) was recorded in a summer at Spacebomb in Richmond.
Sprained Ankle
Julien Rose Baker was born on September 29, 1995 in Germantown, Tennessee, and raised in Bartlett near Memphis. She is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist whose genres Wikipedia lists as alternative rock, indie folk, slowcore, indie rock, emo and post-rock. Sprained Ankle came out on 6131 Records and she signed to Matador in 2017, releasing a 7-inch, "Funeral Pyre" and "Distant Solar Systems", and then Turn Out the Lights on October 27, 2017.
Sprained Ankle was first a Bandcamp EP in winter 2014; the album was mastered, taken down and re-released on October 23, 2015, running 33:33. It was recorded in the summer of 2014 at Spacebomb Studios in Richmond, Virginia, one mic and one take per Pitchfork as quoted by Wikipedia, with Michael Hegner engineering and Baker playing all the instruments. The producer is not stated.
Albums
- Sprained Ankle 2015 · 6131 Records
Her debut album, mixing indie folk with emo, lo-fi and country elements.
Songs
- Sprained Ankle Sprained Ankle · 2015
The title track, track two, premiered on NPR on July 21, 2015.
Sources
- Julien Baker, Wikipedia
- Sprained Ankle, Wikipedia
- Julien Baker Tiny Desk concert, NPR (2016-03-04)
- Julien Baker, MusicBrainz