{"id":25571,"date":"2016-02-21T07:32:36","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T15:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=25571"},"modified":"2016-02-22T10:02:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T18:02:49","slug":"on-sunday-watch-telling-intimate-performances-by-julien-baker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2016-02\/on-sunday-watch-telling-intimate-performances-by-julien-baker\/","title":{"rendered":"On Sunday: Watch Telling, Intimate Performances by Julien Baker"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A host of upstart female artists are having their sway over our ears these days. \u00a0Torres<\/a>,\u00a0Miya Folick<\/a>, Alyeska<\/a>,<\/strong>\u00a0Eskimaux<\/a>, Hop Along<\/a><\/strong>, etc. \u00a0And of course the wounded wunderkind,\u00a0Julien Baker<\/a><\/strong>. Baker<\/strong>\u00a0fittingly found her way onto many Best of 2015<\/strong> lists, and her song Sprained Ankle<\/strong> <\/em>is a particularly affecting gem that was among our Best Songs of 2015<\/strong>. \u00a0Check out below three intimate performances by Baker<\/strong> for Paste<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Her lyrics on the first song,\u00a0Everybody Does<\/strong><\/em>, are devastatingly apropos for a Sunday:<\/p>\n

“Let me pick through the empty dirt
\nAnd the rotten wood and the shoddy work
\nCause I’m interested, and our carpenter is so elegant at placing splinters
\nRight beneath my nails, where I cannot dig them out
\nBut the same briars from your ribs are the tinder in my father’s house”<\/p>\n