Julien Baker Little Oblivions

"[With] a big, steely, momentous-feeling sound that's much more pop-aware than anything else she's done. The expansive music does nothing to dilute her lyrical directness."
"The robust arrangements, plucking from modern rock and Americana, do well to mask what is easily Baker's most candid, heartrending lyricism yet -- an unflinching gaze into the mirror..."
4 stars out of 5 -- "If you're already familiar with Julien Baker's pared back, acoustic guitar and piano-led songwriting, the wider sonic palette is the first thing you'll notice about LITTLE OBLIVIONS."
Billboard - "[M]any of its darkest moments are the most beautiful, like when she leans into her self-described 'bleep bloop music' on album opener 'Hardline,' with an apex that will bring you to your knees."
Billboard - "LITTLE OBLIVIONS is alt-rocker Baker's fullest studio album to date..."
4 stars out of 5 -- "[A]n album of stunning emotional clarity that sees Baker's words sent skyward with help from the beefy instrumentation of a full band."
Paste (magazine) - "These are lush, expansive compositions, awash in everything from drum machines and synthesizers to banjo and what sounds like theremin."
Pitchfork (Website) - "Julien Baker's self-lacerating storytelling gets a more expansive canvas to work with. The big, full-band sound makes all the small moments of pain surreptitiously devastating."
Clash (Magazine) - "On 'Hardline', the effect is overwhelming; crushingly beautiful, it is perhaps Baker's finest moment."