the record
by boygenius
This album has been added to 8 private lists and 20 public lists:
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Best of 2023
Ben EdwardsMaybe a bit early to call them a super group but they are super.
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Albums I enjoyed that came out in 2023
Mark WalleyIt's everyone's album of the year for a reason. It's as good as anything the three of them has individually made (apart from maybe Baker's first album or Bridgers' I Know The End).
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Best, Favorite, & Most Interesting Albums Of 2023
Mark Harrison#1 (TIE)
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TOP ALBUM OF 2023/TIE And...my choice for the top album(s) of 2003. This year, after much debate, I couldn't decide between the top two (which are listed alphabetically), so I went with a tie. Cheating? Maybe. But it's my list, so I can do what I want. It was a difficult year to pick top albums because it's been an insanely strong year for new music releases.
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2023 TOP ALBUM SELECTION: boygenius, the record.
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Genre: Folk rock, indie folk.
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Influenced by: Earlier this year, boygenius released an 82-song playlist of influences and favorites, including a whole lot of artists appearing elsewhere on this list and including Big Thief, Hop Along, Waxahatchee, HAIM, Land of Talk, Mitski, Band of Horses, The National, Wilco, Great Grandpa, Bon Iver & St. Vincent, Iron & Wine, Wild Pink, Broken Social Scene, Regina Spektor, Wednesday, Brian Eno, Sinéad O’Connor, Parliament, Fugazi, Angel Du$t, Joyce Manor, Mineral, Defiance, Ohio, Frank Black, The Soft Boys, Nada Surf, Suicide, The Cars, and Cyndi Lauper. Listen, here: blueprint.
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Similar artists: Elliott Smith, Sharon Van Etten, Waxahatchee, Cat Power, Japanese Breakfast.
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About this album: The debut studio album (LP) by American indie folk rock supergroup boygenius, consisting of Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus, and Phoebe Bridgers (if she isn't guesting on your smash hit 2023 indie-folk album, what are you even doing with your life?). boygenius has been EVERYWHERE this year – giving a knockout, Beatles-themed performance on Saturday Night Live (also appearing in a skit where they and Timothée Chalamet portray a Troupe of Dancing Troye Sivans, replicating the iconic 1994cNirvana cover for Rolling Stone magazine, offering up an incredible cover of Shania Twain’s You’re Still The One for BBC 1, and receiving nominations for ALL the Grammys. This album was followed up by the band’s second EP, the rest, featuring four outtakes. It the trio make more music together as a group in the future, it might be a while – it took five years from the release of their self-titled debut EP for the record and the rest to materialize. The three members of boygenius are already firmly established in their solo careers, but there’s no question that when they come together as creators, something remarkable happens. It’s an effort to maintain that uniqueness that could mean a long wait for the next release. In an interview with NME, Baker said, “I like it being a surprise. I like having this band be something that, because it’s more ephemeral or whatever, it’s not concretely tied to one of us or a person we have to live in every day. It’s something we can revisit when we feel motivated to, or it’s a place we can retreat to. I like saving it as something sacred instead of feeling like I have to constantly grind on it.”
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Cool trivia: In the same NME interview, it was revealed that Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl was meant to guest on the record, but (in true rock star fashion) he accidentally slept through the sessions. However, he did get on stage with boygenius at the Hollywood Bowl to play drums for a Halloween-themed performance of the very-appropriately Nirvanaesque track Satanist back in early November.
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Metacritic Score: 90 (Universal Acclaim). The follow-up EP the rest received a score of 75 (Generally Favorable Reviews).
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Grammy Nominations: Seven. Album of the Year, Best Alternative Music Album, Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. Also nominated for Record of the Year, Best Rock Performance, and Best Rock Song for Not Strong Enough and Best Alternative Music Performance for Cool About It. It should be noted that Bridgers also received a separate seventh nomination for her appearance on SZA’s Ghost in the Machine.
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Song To Sample: Cool About It, Not Strong Enough, Leonard Cohen, and Afraid of Heights from the rest.
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Best New To Me Of 2023
stumpnuggetI thought this album was good, but not great. But then I saw them perform live in a giant crowd of superfans and it was a transcendent experience! It was one of the best shows I've ever seen in my life! I don't really see myself pulling this up five years from now, but boygenius was a big part of 2023 for me.
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2023 Listens
BarryI think I like it!
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Albums I Played - 2023
Skoobz⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨
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💽 2023: Releases
humdrum⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨
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🔮 2023: Most Anticipated
humdrumFull length album from this super group trio?! How could anyone say no? All three of them have individually made a top ten list of mine in the past and their EP was no slouch either.
March 31
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