especially when we're navigating the dark. A record about mistakes but one that lets you bask in their beautiful chaos because as she tells you, over and over here, life is all a learning experience. It always starts the same wayA sight, a sound, or something Then everything decays Till I gather myself And by gather myself I mean Tune out the hemorrhaging And by gather myself I mean Tear down possibility But at the risk of sounding fake Ill walk you through my. Turn Out The Lights is a powerful listen, teaching you to live with your failures and fears, and to move from coping with them to actually loving them. However, even the songs that feel repetitive are masterfully done and as one big narrative, Baker delivers gold. That happens with "Even" - an acoustic track that strums like a '90s guitar interlude - and this makes you want even more differentiation. I wouldn't say one-dimensional, that'd be too harsh but I honestly think she has the vocal prowess and lyrical finesse (way beyond acts like Laura Stevenson, Frances Quinlan and Waxahatchee, whom I all adore) to pull off other styles and to, well. Track List Flowers and You New Halloween Rapture Displacement Benediction Eight Seconds Palm Dreams Softer Spoken Posing Holy Water Damage Skyscraper. I'll admit though that the rest of the songs follow in a similar vein and it gets a tad repetitive. She never forces her hand and the record opens with a bevy of these subtle-sounding tracks: "Appointments", "Shadowboxing" and the self-titled song - all to great effect. Touch Amor has been burrowing through angst, alienation, cancer, and death throughout four adored studio albums. Stylistically, her subtle confessions are constructed to minimal sound-beds, built on guitar picks, piano keys and the hum of organs. Baker waxes poetic on so many things here - family, friends and relationships. 'Skyscraper' es la canción cierre de Stage Four y representa el 'cierre' del duelo para Jeremy Bolm (frontman) por la muerte de su madre por el cáncer. you died at 69with a body full of cancer I asked your God how could you but never heard an answer no one saw it coming the diagnosis of stage four the bravest woman I know who survived it once before. last week i crashed my car and i walked away unscathed maybe. It's also a great evolution and a mark of maturity from her 2015 debut Sprained Ankle. Turn Out The Lights accomplishes just that, teaching us that it's okay to hurt and heal, and more specifically, to believe in said light. Julien Baker has been on my radar for about a year now after I heard her on Touche Amore's last record via "Skyscraper." I did some research and what I found was a young songstress ready to bring her Memphis woe to the fore and expose her heart and very soul.
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