Julien Baker performs ‘Hardline’ on Late Night with Seth Meyers

By Steve Janes

On March 2, 2021

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JULIEN BAKER

PERFORMS ‘HARDLINE’ ON LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MEYERS LITTLE OBLIVIONS

https://youtu.be/NqXrGb_vqy4

OUT NOW ON MATADOR RECORDS

OFFICIAL ALBUM RELEASE STREAMING CONCERT -MARCH 25 AT 7PM GMT

Praise for Little Oblivions:“Beautiful, devastating” – i *****“… the cream of a new crop of American singer-songwriters” – The Times“… full of depth and detail” – Financial Times **** “… startlingly open, musically expansive” – Evening Standard ****“… mesmerizing” – Sunday Times“… a striking shift” – i-D“… more expansive and complex than ever before” – New Statesman“… set to be yet another step up in her already accomplished young career” – British GQ“… an album of stunning emotional clarity that sees Baker’s words sent skyward” – NME ****“A soundtrack for those searching for hope in difficult times – DIY 4.5/5“Everything on Little Oblivions will make you feel, and it’s the catharsis we all need” – Uncut 8/10

This past Friday, Julien Baker released her third album, Little Oblivions, to worldwide critical praise. Last night, she performed her single ‘Hardline’ on Late Night with Seth Meyers.

Watch HERE.

“Baker has the kind voice that stays in your ear long after the sound has passed through it: weighty with a cutting message, resonating like it traveled over a mountain to get to you,” says The Fader. “’Hardline’ has instrumentation to match, with one of the biggest choruses of the indie singer-songwriter’s career. It’s post-rock, it’s shoegaze, it’s pure catharsis.” On Thursday, March 25, Baker will perform her first streamed concert in support of the album. The show is taking place via STAGED, streaming pioneers Audiotree’s acclaimed virtual concert series.

The fully-produced streaming concert will be broadcast from Nashville’s Analog (at Hutton Hotel), marking the first show from Nashville in the series. Three screenings will air on March 25 to ensure fans worldwide can tune in during prime time. Screening times are 8pm AEDT, 7pm GMT, and 9pm EDT. Tickets start at $15 and are available exclusively at https://audiotree.tv/stream/julien-baker.

Each screening will be available for 24 hours after the completion of the show, on-demand, so fans can watch the show as many times as they’d like. Special guest Mini Trees will be the support for Julien Baker. Little Oblivions is the follow up to Baker’s 2017 sophomore album and first on Matador Turn Out The Lights.

The New York Times said the LP is “the work of a songwriter who has resonated with an international audience (…), the rare second album that, despite new self-consciousness, stretches beyond an unspoiled debut to reach for even bigger things, with all its passion intact”. The Sunday Times said “the mix of detached vocals, lush arrangements and laid-bare post-mortems on love, loss, dysfunction and acceptance is devastating.” In 2018, Baker formed boygenius with Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus.

The resulting eponymous EP and joint North American tour made for one of the most celebrated and talked about musical communions of that year, highlighting Baker at the forefront of a burgeoning generation of era-defining artists. Baker shot to worldwide attention in 2015 with show-stopping debut, Sprained Ankle. Recorded in only a few days, it was a bleak yet hopeful meditation on identity, addiction, faith, resilience and redemption. An intense and immersive performer, her live shows were described by The New Yorker as “…. hushed, reverential.

The only sounds you hear between songs are her fingers as she tweaks the tuning on her electric guitar, scattered whispers between friends, and the rustling as the crowd waits patiently for Baker to start strumming again”. Baker has collaborated on studio recordings with Frightened Rabbit, Matt Berninger, Hayley Williams, Becca Mancari, Mary Lambert, and on stage with Justin Vernon, The National, Sharon Van Etten, Ben Gibbard, and others.