Listen – Julien Baker ‘Distant Solar Systems’ + ‘Good News (Piano Version)’

Julien Baker’s new 7” Funeral Pyre is fresh in stores this week! The single, with previously unreleased track B-side ‘Distant Solar Systems’ can be heard below. The Memphis, TN-based songwriter’s contribution to the Our First 100 Days compilation – a piano version of Sprained Ankle track ‘Good News’ – was also released today. Our First 100 Days was started in conjunction with Secretly Group and 30 Songs, 30 Days, and is raising funds...

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Announced – Julien Baker signs to Matador Records

Memphis, TN-based songwriter Julien Baker is the latest addition to the Matador Records roster.  The 21-year-old’s devastating and vulnerable debut album, Sprained Ankle, saw Baker tour the critically acclaimed release across Australia last December. Fans can now hear a previously unreleased song ‘Funeral Pyre’, which is the title-track and A-side forBaker’s new 7” coming out Friday 17 March via Matador / Remote Control.  Only Baker can make a song with such a darkly macabre...

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