Julien Baker - Song In E

Julien Baker released her 3rd album Little Oblivions at the end of February and it is such a devastatingly sad, beautiful, harrowing and cathartic album. An uncompromising self-reflection of her struggles that doesn't wallow in defeatism, she still plays nearly all the instrument's herself as per her other albums but unlike the others it has a full-band sound.

It's a wildly inventive step forward and I'd recommend listening while reading the lyrics, which are available on Genius.

Song In E is probably my favourite track on first listen. It's a slow, keyboard-based track which throws in a fancy chord or two as Baker’s narrator fesses up to having only herself to blame for her drinking, then twists the dagger into herself even further: “It’s the mercy I can’t take.”