La jeune songwriter américaine Julien Baker (notre interview ici) vient d’annoncer sa signature sur le label Matador (Savages, Car Seat Headrest, Lucy Dacus, Kurt Vile,..), qui sortira notamment son prochain 7” le 17 mars. Le vinyle rassemblera Funeral Pyre (déjà en écoute) et Distant Solar System, deux morceaux issus des sessions d’enregistrement de son premier album Sprained Ankle qui n’avaient finalement pas été exploités.
Dans la foulée, Baker a également annoncé une tournée européenne, qui ne passera pas (*ulgy cries*) par la France ou la Belgique. Si une escapade à Berlin ou Amsterdam vous tente néanmoins, ses dates de concerts sont sur MatadorRecords.com
Elle a donné quelques explications à NPR concernant Funeral Pyre (précédemment appelée Sad Song Number 11, on comprend pourquoi) :
Obviously, drinking gasoline incurs bodily harm on you, but also, being an accessory to that kind of behavior and having to decide — it incurs harm upon you, too. And then, are you responsible for permitting that? If you stay, are you responsible for permitting it? And if you leave, are you responsible for not intervening? If you intervene, are you out of your bounds? Everything about the song is figuring out how you should act in your level of responsibility for your own health and to others in the dynamic of a relationship, which is a difficult lesson to learn.
I feel like I would have put myself into an unfavorable or unhealthy position for this person and maybe recognizing from an outside perspective that that destructivism is a more healthy thing to do than to stay in it for the sort of, romantic, admirable belief that subjecting yourself to this kind of sacrificial, fatuous love would be more of the right thing to do.”
Photo : Nolan Knight
J’aime bien les disques et la phrase “ils sont allés au dancing”. Je fais des podcasts (Cuistax, checke sur iTunes) et des pâtes aux lardons.
