Read more: See boygenius live on their summer tour with Carly Rae Jepsen, Claud, more It feels easy to ebb and flow to come together and pull apart in waves, each crest pushing a new person forward. While that separation could be divisive, instead the trio’s strengthened in their pursuits, thereby ushering more conviction and assuredness into each song. But now, after years of further defining their own styles, their powers have grown separate. On track “Me & My Dog,” in a harsh few seconds, they wailed, “I wanna be emaciated.” A word like “emaciated,” sung in harmony, instruments silent, stung in its singularity. While usually one singer would lead at a time, the vocals were often layered: there was a sense that no song belonged to just one person. The group first came together as boygenius for a 2018 self-titled EP, which skewed far into folk. Maybe we expect it to be - looking at the collective repertoires of members Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus, joy and whimsy are phrases tossed around far less than wanting and wistful. We don’t need boygenius’ music to be gutting.
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