Julien Baker Sprained Ankle
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neekafat
Staff Reviewer
October 26th 2017


26217 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah where are you guys finding this lol

BlushfulHippocrene
Staff Reviewer
October 26th 2017


4052 Comments

Album Rating: 4.7

It's out in Australia; comes out on the 27th. But a leak's been making its rounds the last couple days.

Conmaniac
October 26th 2017


27693 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I dont do leaks. gonna wait a day patiently (:

neekafat
Staff Reviewer
October 26th 2017


26217 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

[2] (:

Dewinged
Staff Reviewer
October 26th 2017


32047 Comments


I had my finger hovering over the download botton in the link that Freddie had but I resisted the temptation, just a few hours.

Edit: It's out. Here I go friends.

BlushfulHippocrene
Staff Reviewer
October 27th 2017


4052 Comments

Album Rating: 4.7

'Cause I heard there's a fix for everything

Then why, then why, then why, then why not me ?!???

neekafat
Staff Reviewer
October 27th 2017


26217 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Is it?? God the wait is killing meeee

BlushfulHippocrene
Staff Reviewer
October 27th 2017


4052 Comments

Album Rating: 4.7

It'll be out whenever midnight is for you, lovely. (:

Dewinged
Staff Reviewer
October 27th 2017


32047 Comments


Starting second half. How can I say this... I am not surprised. it's good, really good, but not brilliant, I haven't been floored yet.

Slex
October 27th 2017


16615 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

Blushful that's by far the best song/best moment on the album imo

Lucman
October 27th 2017


5537 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

First listen to the new one left me somewhat underwhelmed, but further listens are changing that entirely. It's really, really good, although definitely an album that takes time to sink in and digest.

neekafat
Staff Reviewer
October 27th 2017


26217 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Come here Julien! I won't have time to listen to you much later ):

BlushfulHippocrene
Staff Reviewer
October 27th 2017


4052 Comments

Album Rating: 4.7

Shadowboxing, Sour Breath, Hurt Less and Even are current favourites. Appointments, Turn Out the Lights and Happy to be Here are songs I overplayed before the album's release, so I'm cooling down with those.

The second verse on Sour Breath is immaculate. "But I shouldn't have built a house in the middle of your chest / Plywood boards joined at your breast". And obviously, it's refrain.

The harder I swim the faster I sink



neekafat
Staff Reviewer
October 27th 2017


26217 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Ughhhhh so lovely I'm dying

Overall thoughts Blush?

Slex
October 27th 2017


16615 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

I love Sour Breath but absolutely detest that absurdly over processed wail that closes out the song, it is so artificial and also just sounds bad to me

Dewinged
Staff Reviewer
October 27th 2017


32047 Comments


The closer is amazing.

BlushfulHippocrene
Staff Reviewer
October 27th 2017


4052 Comments

Album Rating: 4.7

I'll refrain from rating it, but I love it - a lot. It is a lot different to Sprained Ankle, in precisely the way Lucid mentioned. But I do think while the album was, obviously, recorded with a wide audience in mind, the songs themselves don't at all sound as though they were written as such (for the most part, that is). Its thematic stitching seems as genuine as Sprained Ankle's did. Of course, part of that stitching is indeed something evidently communal, and she intentionally lets the audience in on her pain in a way that was at least partially unintentional on the last album. What's lost in this "intimacy", however, is replaced with... I don't know, I suppose a greater level of deliberation; its progression is better thought out and a lot more intentional. And there's something beautiful in that. A self-awareness that is perhaps frustrating (and to an extent undermines what Sprained Ankle was, which I do empathise with), but also kind of perfect. I think it's a little bit perfect.

neekafat
Staff Reviewer
October 27th 2017


26217 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Hot damn I can't wait.

Jamming now!!

Dewinged
Staff Reviewer
October 27th 2017


32047 Comments


Well that... was beautiful Blush.

neekafat
Staff Reviewer
October 27th 2017


26217 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I agree 100% and I think it was way better than this just as I expected it was more up my alley



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