Julien Baker & Torres have introduced their debut collab album ‘Ship A Prayer My Manner’ and have shared their track ‘Sylvia’. Hear beneath.
The smooth observe contains a sealing metal guitar, thumping drums and easy harmonies as Baker and Torres yearnfully sing: “Sylvia / Don’t overlook me / Sylvia / Really feel like I’m lacking every thing,” describing the worry of getting somebody pricey to them lose sight of them.
‘Sylvia”s accompanying black-and-white video sees the 2 working in a studio in addition to performing the track stay at a gig. Baker’s Boygenius bandmate, Lucy Dacus, makes a cameo within the visuals.
Talking in regards to the track in a press launch, Torres defined: “The morning I went to select up my canine Sylvia from an upstate shelter, I used to be at house making my espresso and I turned on WFMU and Dolly Parton’s ‘Cracker Jack’ was on. I burst into tears—it felt just like the universe was telling me she was going to be mine (Sylvia was solely meant to be a foster).
“I bear in mind considering that I’d love to write down a track like that, a track that folks might really feel of their chest inside 5 seconds of turning on the radio, as a result of anybody who has ever had the dignity of sharing a house with a beloved pet is aware of {that a} pet is household—they’re the most effective associates you would ever have.”
‘Sylvia’ follows the duo’s beforehand launched debut observe ‘Sugar In The Tank’, which noticed Baker & Torres shocked followers with an look on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon to carry out the track stay.
Each songs will probably be featured on their forthcoming debut collab album ‘Ship A Prayer My Manner’.
Set for launch on April 18 through Matador, the report has been within the works since 2016 when Baker and Torres performed their first gig collectively at Lincon Heart in Chicago. On the finish of the present, one singer turned to the opposite and stated: “You recognize, we must always make a rustic album.”
Elizabeth Wetmore, creator of Valentine has described ‘Ship A Prayer My Manner’ as “a rattling wonderful nation album, written and sung in the most effective of the outlaw custom—defiant, subversive, working class, and decided to wrestle not solely with habit, remorse and unhealthy choices, but in addition with oppressive techniques of energy.”
She continued, saying: “These are songs about wrapping up an extended shift and driving house bone drained, simply hoping for a bit of weed and a quiet place to place your ft up; or falling off the wagon (once more) and questioning if this time it can lastly drag you beneath the wheels; or considering that unhealthy choices are the one choices you know the way to make.”
You may pre-save ‘Ship A Prayer My Manner’ right here.
Elsewhere, Baker beforehand launched into a three-night run at NYC’s Webster Corridor again on October 5, the place she debuted two new songs with Torres. Nonetheless, she was pressured to go away the stage mid-set the next night after getting sick, with bandmate Lucy Dacus pressured to announce that the gig could be ending prematurely.
Baker had additionally beforehand debuted two new tracks in Chicago – ‘Center Kids’, and ‘Excessive In The Basement’. Elsewhere, she was additionally joined by Bartees Unusual in Washington DC for a particular rendition of ‘Ringside’.
Final 12 months, she reunited with Boygenuis for his or her debut album ‘The Document’, which received three Grammy Awards. ‘The Document’ was topped NME‘s Album of The Yr for 2023 and scored a glowing five-star evaluation on NME, with Erica Campbell writing: “This debut is a beautiful testomony to what can occur while you enable your self to totally be seen.
“Although every of the album’s 12 tracks might have match properly on one in every of their private data, their work collectively takes on a brighter bolder existence, enabling them to mild up individually and collectively on the similar time.”
In the meantime, Baker and Torres’ reclamation of the nation style follows Chappell Roan doing related, having debuted a brand new “lesbian anthem” nation observe, ‘The Giver‘ on Saturday Evening Reside.
