"Boygenius' New Album Empowers with Sadness and Queer Visibility"

Boygenius, the rock band consisting of singer-songwriters Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus, has released their debut album, which features catchy and self-assured art from their individual repertoires while blunting the hopelessness in songs about self-destructive urges, breakups, and deaths. The trio met while gigging in the mid-2010s and then kept in touch, getting along swimmingly because they were circling some of the same concepts from different approaches. The new songs have found a fix for the loneliness the EP left us with: boygenius finds strength in boygenius.