Julien Baker: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert 

Me too 💕

@@jorb1903 wishing you well friend

hope you are well now

@@qkdtoal hey, taking it day by day. hope you're alright as well.

I’ve been fighting cancer for a year and I regularly find myself coming back to this performance. Your comment summarises why so well

Same

Same. 😊

if we experience these feelings even if we are far away or we do not know each other, never feel alone, we are next to each other but this reality that surrounds us distracts us. ciao

Your comment is just plain cool.

@@broadcastocazzo thank you. ❤️‍🩹

+Jack Hogan thought the exact same thing. It stood out to me.

She knows the way of the tone for sure!

Estamos iguales, estoy enamorada

It was such a sweet moment!

I read this and burst into tears. Ughhhhhh.

Literally read it as she sang it

Hope this is real cause that's so pure

This comment made me cry.

Why’d this comment make me cry tho

@@Jermthewerm801 it did me too.

Bryant - I feel as if you should check in with us every year, just to know that we're all still surviving and listening to incredible music together! (:

you should see her cover of Death Cab's Photobooth

well there are alot of Indie Artists who can transmit that feeling. first ones that come to my mind are Bear's Den and The Staves for example. :)

I feel like the 1975 and aquilo sort of do that

what does indie even mean anymore today not much back then indie meant somthing now its just a other easy genre section :/ but she is greath tho

Soft heartfelt sadness has been missing from indie music? Seems like 80% of tiny desk concerts are soft heartfelt sadness.

wasnt she like 7 then?

@@timothy790110 13

Awesome story. Thanks for sharing.

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Agreed. The first note struck reminded me instantly of Keaton Henson's opening song on his Tiny Desk appearance.

+Levi Warnos I thought the same thing. The song you're thinking of is You Don't Know How Lucky You Are. A beautiful song as well with beautiful guitar work.

+Ducky Indeed. When I discovered Keaton's performance, it rocked me to the core. I can still remember the shower I took with his voice and vibrations soothing my confused, bruised, and battered thoughts and soul, crying to depths that I refuse to touch or release, almost to the point of absurdity after certain family deaths, close friends and community elders, often very tragic/strange/close knitted circumstances. I was in the trenches; I also had gone through a nearly 3-year break up the July prior (2014). Then, some time later, it was the first major winter blizzard in Michigan's Upper Peninsula - the white, muted, endless landscape outside and in my mind that I had to face to survive... I can remember the wind howling outside the bathroom window of the cabin my parent's rented for the weekend that we hunkered down in... the soothing steam and my gnarled spine, the stone of the floor where the water pooled and drained, the lyrics that said what I couldn't so perfectly, that in ways both generally and specifically paired frighteningly close with my life and my struggle with expressing what, in many ways, seemed surreal, for it was all too real. Like how my parent's struggled to listen to their poetic graduate student son and his newest venture in 'Spiritual Writing or the Lack Thereof', confronting his deepest fears and anxieties for 4 credits, trying to make sense of anything in the wake of loss and unsaid words and clenching regret that still, at times, haunts or follows me two years later (not simply spiritually or metaphorically, but physically, too), while C-Span debated and droned, reading speeches about ISIS, some new threat, and Captain Kirk and the original Khan (not Benedict Cumberbatch, but a sexist in tune with the tone of the times) met on the adjacent channel. My life, or my perception of what is mine and more, has been strange and skewed as any or few. His music helped me heal and grieve so much. I wanted to show my mother 'Nests', but never have. Simply put, I'm so thankful for people like this, when I run out of words.

+Username47948 no literally. you can't torrent them. They are too little ;D

+Username47948 do not torrent music ever, they need to make money from their art, it's not free and what they do for a living

Exactly and they earn so little with their music. Take Kanye west for example: He is in personal debt of 50 million and that's just because you the Torrenters - obviously

+Jens P If you're trying to make me feel sympathy for Kanye West, you're failing miserably.

+raziell He was making a point...

Amelia Rae your dad is awesome

♥️

I believe!

Yeah that'd a really cool dad

Julien is actually a devout christian lol

D T Your Hand in Mine is one of those songs I’m always in the mood to listen to at night. I got the same vibes.

omg first thing I thought of! glad someone else was on the same page

chetanddesai Speaking of which, how great would a new Explosions album be!

most relevant comment ever

I get like a more laid back Covet/Yvette Young tone from her

Yep. That’s it. You nailed it perfectly. She picks out the strands from sorrow that are the most crystalline and reflective and she spins them into something close to pure euphoric release. It’s all so brittle but unbreakable, and the sounds that pass her lips meld with the sounds from her fingertips and they all become instant monuments to every feeling she’s ever felt, monuments of perfect glass that will stand forever, tall and unyielding, never losing their light.

Mark Medina My favorite one so far is PWR BTTMS. Within a minute of seeing their NPR set I was in love.

High Deaf Radio man I don't even like pwr bttms but they did do a great show for tdc

Mark Medina Pinegrove is my favourite

Forrister?

ClassicalQuack and head

Is that a new gender pronoun?

Oh I already have a nice MIA tele, the lake placid blue is gorgeous though.

I actually think it's agave blue. I used to own one.

Isn't it.. I have one as well bahahahah ♥

same feelsbadman

Absolutely agree.

New album coming out in March!

Not late. Might be early, and a lucky find.

album out tomorrow!!!

Better late than never

Never too late :-)

That Red Panda I had a similar experience with Daniela Andrade. I was front and center, stood outside waiting for the doors to open for four hours. I was third in line. Her manager came out a few times and was impressed we were all waiting in what was maybe 40°F weather. He asked if we wanted to meet her and take pictures and I sort of just babbled when she came out and got a few pics with her. I’ll never forget the natural timbre of her voice. It was a bit changed by the mic and all but she had a very good sound guy so the two were pretty identical. But that open sound that just engulfed her surrounding and me being perhaps 7 feet away. It’s something I’ll never forget. This is the first I hear of her and I can tell I’d have similar experience if I saw her live.

I’m planning on seeing her on September 24th in Minneapolis. Hopefully I will be able to join her onstage since I helped write some songs for her!

@@LAVISHING Wow! Jealous! Have fun!

IM GOING TO SEE HER NEXT WEEKEND!!!!

I'm seeing her today omg!!!! This video is how I heard of her music 🥲

+Tyler Nunes Funny, cause that's exactly what I was thinking

+Tyler Nunes Post rock has been around for decades. She's not the first to sing over post rock guitars just because you're hearing it for the first time in 2016 haha.

Sense of humor has been around for milleniums. Youre not the first to not get a joke haha.

Brqinstorm I got the joke. But it was a joke made in ignorance by someone who thinks all post rock is "Explosions in the Sky".

Brqinstorm My point is that this guy is devaluing Julien's music by saying it's just "explosions in the sky with a singer'. No need to write a fucking essay about it.

thank you for this! i’m rewatching these old videos of julien and couldn’t quite put my finger on funeral pyre 🥰

Right! I have loved daughter and Jose Gonzalez for a long time and to discover her is like a new warm blanket of music.

You know the X’s also stand for straight edge, right?

FOR THE STRAIGHT EDGE

She's straight edge I guess

those could be just voided club stamps yall peace

Godspeed You, Black Emperor! + Julien Baker would be an instead death for me.

+Bagas Asfriansyah I'm dead anyways, brother :P

Dude I literally just found her but that was seriously my thought too.

it would be both

We can only hope

No. They have to make a good game on their own.

@@chipbipple2593 Idk I feel like getting a really good musician for a game soundtrack is an effort to make the game better.

@@chipbipple2593 Bruh... They don't make their own original music. Daughter did almost there whole soundtrack for before the storm.

And there we've come full circle. There really are people with a certain whimsical appreciation for sadness that always stumble on one another, no matter the subject

WOW YES

Wow Leo Porter, that was beautifully put! Very nicely sad and I couldn't agree with you more! NS San Diego, CA

+Nancy Scarbrough sorry, I meant said

+Nancy Scarbrough Makes me wish i lived anywhere near America so I could go and see her live! Brisbane, Australia.

+Nick Burnham I nearly applauded at the end of it.

Always an angel, never a God

same

hell yeah

same

I know........me too. Sometimes I feel like I connect more with the people in the comment sections who appreciate the same music than people i see everyday in real life.

I gave a good fight but gave in by 1:30.

she's playing at your house??

u suc:)

man you need to get out of the house more

He probably owns a venue

Max, could be. A lot of people at her level of success still do shows at people's houses. For example, you can find videos of Glen Phillips doing show shows.

Well, yes and no. Those shotgun microphones do solve the problem of cutting out anything coming from the sides, but through the same effect they cut out the reflections of the vocalist's own sound, including the low-frequency "help" those reflections bring due to room effects. This leads to all voices on NPR sounding sort of "body-less" and "dry". But the rest sounds great, I can agree with that.

@@d0nj03 I guess that's why everyone raves about the sound quality of these...

welcome to the club! lots of good material from boygenius too

Would be epic!

Daughter opening up for Julien

+Josiah Shank I was thinking the same thing. I would like to see their personalities together too.

+Josiah Shank I was thinking the same thing. I would like to see their personalities together too.

Same!! I think she'd bring back some of the acoustic spirit that Daughter had in their first albums... I loved "Not to disappear", but I loved them most with just two guitars and thrumming drums, Elena's voice making my heart swell and lulling me to sleep like this girl did now

Show me on the doll...

Whohurtyou whohurtyou whohurtyou

It's beautiful though. Makes you experience love and loss all wrapped up in an innocent voice that takes you back to your first love.. and loving people makes life worth living.

TELL ME WHOM AND I WOULD DESTROY THEM!

drugs

Oh well, found my comment. Nothing has changed.

Oh yesss

+Andrew Mccarn yes my friend ,yes!

+Andrew Mccain I have been thinking this since I heard Sprained Ankle, could not agree more

Oh Yo!!!! That's a great idea!

omf

+Hot Pepper Gaming Vernon! damn, I knew you had good tastes. Hot peppers, hotter women.

Hot Pepper Gaming yes, I should marry her, but

Rip

+Sean Lee haha, same here, except I found her from audiotree sessions!

i will be there at your funeral

well done creepus

sarah is sarcastic Your profile pic is a very interesting choice. I like it.

thank you good sir, i like it as well

sarah is sarcastic ME EXACTLY WHAT THE HECK

Layah Duckworth SUFFERING IS UNIVERSAL MY MAN

sarah is sarcastic ARE WE CAPS LOCKED FOR A REASON?

+William Lim I concur - that song really stands out! Hoping for a new record relatively soon. Julien is an amazing musician.

+Salekeen Nayeem good to see a fellow Tool fan (i spammed all their albums on my phone about 5 years ago) appreciate other genres. Besides this I've been listening to modern hip hop all around the world. Music is such an incredible and powerful thing.

I love her sound. Layers and layers of melancholy reverb and oscillating melodies.

you should check out Dying Elephants then :)

Jeremi L. look at run for cover records, no sleep, or topshelf

Elliott Smith. eventually it stops being sad. I've been listening to him so long that through all of my depression he's the only one who has ever stopped me from killing myself apart from my best friend. simply because I realized that his music was his own healing process, although most might say it never really worked for him.

You are welcome to visit my channel ^^

Where can I listen to your songs?

It's a process. I'll offer you this; even past the crying phase this resonates. It's a greater truth offered here. That won't mean much to you now, but it will mean everything later.

that's what I thought, but this opened me up to the tears

THIS!

ok

+Erik Ramirez I often wonder if he died.

❤️

@@EvilAntic LMAOOO

Lol