boygenius - the record: the review｜Vinyl Monday: Power of a Supergroup PART 2
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Welcome to a special non-Monday installment of Vinyl Monday! I’m Abby and this is my weekly series where I chat about albums in my collection and the music I love. This is part 2 of my supergroup week! My thoughts on boygenius’s the record (released 2023.) Subscribe for more Vinyl Monday and vintage fashion!
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Timestamps:
intro - 0:00
the record - 1:08
track listing/release - 10:20
my thoughts - 13:28
thanks for watching! - 26:00
Music:
Intro Music: Yeah Yeah Yeah (Long) by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/...) Artist: audionautix.com/
Outtro Music: Ticket To Nowhere Man by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/...) Artist: audionautix.com/
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thank you all for allowing me to do something a little outside of the box for this series/channel. ready or not there’s more to come
WOW!!! 2 videos in a weeks....AWESOME!! Gonna listen to this music today!!
Yes! Was hoping you would feature a new album at some point. I was born in the mid-60s and love all the classics from the 60s/70s, but I truly believe we're living in a golden age of great new music as well - which extends back at least into the late 90s. Have you thought about covering a Weyes Blood album? Natalie's great voice (alto!), lyrics focused on present-day topics, coupled with her recent style being rooted in the 70s would be a great tie-in for the demographic of this channel. But really, do whatever you like - I'm sure you could make a compelling review of the sound of rust forming on the undercarriages of Norwegian luxury automobiles (to borrow from an old joke)!
Kick ass, keep broadening those horizons!!
If you’re taking suggestions for more recent(ish) albums to review, from the last decade might I suggest anything by Shabazz Palaces, but perhaps 2011’s _Black Up_ in particular? Hip-hop seems to be the musical idiom of the moment, but no one gives weird hip-hop nearly enough attention!
And going back further in time, one of the most inexplicable major label decisions of the ‘90s was Columbia signing the Butthole Surfers … leading to a host of then-youths hearing “Pepper” on f.m. radio and believing they’d heard the band’s sound, BUT - the band’s creative heyday of the ‘80s produced magnificently odd albums like _Hairway to Steven, Locust Abortion Technician,_ and my personal favorite, _Psychic … Powerless … Another Man’s Sac._ If part of your project is capturing the spirit of different eras, I’d say the Butthole Surfers well-represent everything we kids were really up to in the ‘80s - all the discontent and dark humor which fermented behind the façade of Reagan’s U.S.A., which would erupt into public consciousness in the ‘90s named first the “indie” and then the “alt” and finally the “grunge” craze … although dismissing the era’s signifiers as mere surface fads would be a mistake: there was often an ethos informing the aesthetic, so major ‘90s industries from music to film to technology having raided the ‘80s and ‘70s underground continues to shape the world today, aesthetically and otherwise.
And perhaps Shabazz Palaces too points to something interesting bubbling just beneath the surface of our current bleak moment, hopefully soon to erupt. Also, loads of the ‘60s stuff you’re reviewing has roots in the beat movement, which preceding the hippie era centered around Greenwich Village coffeehouses in N.Y.C. and the City Lights bookstore in S.F. … and those folks loved Pete Seeger, The Weavers, pre-electric Bob Dylan, and also some classic rock-and-roll, Chubby Checkers, Fats Domino - stuff that would’ve been in my mom’s album collection, that she might’ve played at college on her Zenith portable record player - it might be fun to see you dig back further in time, to examine the eras which informed the ‘60s. Heck, go back as far as the Wobblies, I’m quite sure the Library of Congress has made audio files of old wire recordings available, all those great 1900s protest songs are bound to be captured somewhere!
I guess I’d be interested to see you hop around in time more, wardrobe and all, and to see more connections made between the past and the present. For instance, I’d had no idea the first Boygenius album’s cover referenced the 1969 _Crosby, Stills, and Nash_ album cover until you pointed it out, and I love learning stuff like that!! So, yeah, that’s all. Just some dumb random thoughts. Or keep doing what you do, this is good too! Anywho, very glad I stumbled across your channel.
Glad you did it. I'm old but like to listen to new music. I love Phoebe Bridgers but didn't know about the other members of the band... or about boygenius. Thanks Abigail!
I'd love to see a boy girl supergroup doing harmonies like the Mamas and Papas did back in the day. A lost art.
Indeed!!
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Whoa! Taken off guard by this vid post. Sooooo psyched you posted it. Just finished listening to this record on Apple Music. Heady, beautiful stuff. OMG, my heart. Love the overdriven guitar sounds. Thanks, Abigail, for the introduction to a brilliant pop super group 🚀🎸
wow so happy to make the introduction!
I know this album is definitely not targeted to the core audience of this channel, but I’m so glad you’re talking about it. I’ve heard some of the songs from this project and it has been amazing so far.
What is the "core audience"? 🥸
I’ll consider this vinyl “Friday” a birthday present-thanks for covering one of my current faves, Abby! Adore your use of the Dylan lyrics to capture each member’s vibes 🥰
i feel SO bad i couldn't think of one for lucy, definitely one of those spooky dylan lyrics from the desire era for sure. it's just been so long since i revisited that record
I enjoy boygenius, together and individually. They are among the modern female singer/songwriters that I have been discovering the past few years.
Okay I didn't expect this!!! Vinyl Friday! AND a modern band!
Blown away by the quality of your presentation! Funny, stylish and informative.
thanks so much!
Another wonderful listening experience, which I’ll return to many times. It has everything I love, and then some. Great variety of moods and textures, sweet inventive harmonies, and the lyrics are something else. What a voice! So direct, but always in a clever way.
Abby, your passion and enthusiasm is infectious, yet another LP to investigate 👍
Thank you for this very good review! I love boygenius and their solo stuff (espacially Julien‘s music) ❤
Was wondering who this new band was....Abby to the rescue! I will listen to this now.
Hey Abby: wanted you to know that my wife Sofie and I are using the song, “True Blue” to commemorate our 20th wedding anniversary this month. It’s a perfect song for us and all we’ve been through together. The album, in fact, has brought us closer. Thank you for helping us to discover this great song, and these truly great artists. It’s healing music for me.
I'm an old geezer. Don't know boygenius but I do know Phoebe Bridgers. In my day a supergroup was Bloomfield, Kooper and Stills or Blind Faith.
Blind Faith now that’s a super group
Watching form the Philippines 🤩,
I was so happy to find out this record lives up to the hype. I love it so much, I haven’t even take it home yet. I’ve kept it at the store to listen to there, and I’ve sold several copies in the process.
I consider your channel a channel about music discovery. Yes, you showcase mostly classic vinyl, but, to me growing up in the 80's it's mostly before my time. Of course I know The Beatles, Beachboys, and Led Zeppelin, but CSN, Blind Faith, etc. are newer discoveries for me. So, that being said, a new release like boygenius fits right in to your channel. It a new discovery - and I love discovering music (old and new). Thank your for your awesome videos! Keep em coming!
Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker, and Lucy Dacus have made some of my favorite albums of all time and to hear them make a proper full album made my day. I love this album and while I don’t think it’s worth the Rolling Stone “Instant classic”, I still this album is great.
it’ll for sure be interesting to see how this album is remembered. only time will tell!
@@abigaildevoe Many albums from the past couple years are going to probably regarded as landmark albums for future generations. This album being one of them.
Exciting! I've actually been wondering about this very record. I like Phoebe and Julien's solo work.
Great throw-em-off, I was like "boy, the sky truly is falling"
What a nice surprise bonus Monday!!! :)
Thank you, for the new exposure of music! 👏
Core demographic here, once unaware of Neutral Milk Hotel and Phoebe Bridges. Keyword: "once".
When you recommend I (eventually) listen ;)
Love this!!!
I just discovered your channel by having the Doors video recommended and passing to see what else instead, watched in utero and loved the nuanced take, than saw this and subbed. It’s weird how ppl put Phoebe fans in the urban outfitters aesthetic vinyl collecting while not even owning a turntable hipster category, I spoke at length with a Lana Del Rey fan on how ppl get pigeon holed for liking trendy modern artists. It feels weird to explain but collecting and listening is an important part of self care and a very pleasurable activity, your channel has a lot of effort put into going depth on technical aspects and also kinda fires off on personal impressions, as a person who doesn’t go out a lot it is very enjoyable and I appreciate you sitting next to your collection to chat like a friend. I’m gunna watch the Doors video now after all even though I’ve felt quite over them since I was a teenager.
EASTER WEEKEND SPECIAL!!! GO GIRL!
Content from right field! ❤🎉
Thanks for a turn-on to music that's new to me!! Getting around 10-20 CDs from the library soon.... (librarian folks are as cool as you, Abby!!!)
I’m SO excited for this episode, prepare for a super long comment cause I’m such a fan lol. I know a lot of the core audience in this community may not be the usual demographic for the album but I hope they give this record (no pun intended haha) a listen.
As most, I got into boygenius through Phoebe Bridgers in 2020 during lockdown, I had only listened to Motion Sickness before that and got into Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker through that.
I got to see Phoebe live in 2022 and her energy is such a force I swear, I truly hope to get to see boygenius this year.
Also, I want to get this album on vinyl so bad merely for the locked groove on letters to an old poet, I’ll never forget hearing the part where letters to an old poet has the same melody as me and my dog. I remember staring at my friends in the listening party in such excitement, felt like a hello from an old friend.
Favourites are $20, True Blue and Letters to an Old Poet!
(that clip of Phoebe screaming $20 never fails to make me laugh)
you’re so lucky you got to see phoebe live! how chill she seems as a person makes her stage presence all the more commanding. from what i’ve seen it’s like you’re transported into another universe for 2 hours at a phoebe show. it’s the same with lucy!
i hope my core audience gives boygenius a chance too. there’s more connections to my usual material than meets the eye
@@abigaildevoe all i can describe is that it is was so surreal, getting to scream to ‘i know the end’ was such a once in a lifetime experience (also will never forget the time someone behind me tried to mosh pit to kyoto haha)
Love these you’re opening my mind.
Finally a new opening! Superb!
I love Boygenius
I really enjoy your channel thanks for another informative and entertaining episode 👍
Loveeee this review
Woah a suprise upload my lucky day
Great deep dive Abi!
didn't know most of that info- even though I'm personally a HUGE stan of boygenius members, since before 2017.
videoed my wild experience with this record and doing a vinyl shootout showing every pressing... it's gonna be my AOTY, no question.
EVERY press?? loving the commitment. none of us were emotionally equipped
@@abigaildevoe Yes, EVERY. Just waiting on standard black... ironically
Thanks for another great review. It made a nice change... I'm feeling a bit burnt out lately on all the "classic rock"... but I did notice the album behind you and I'm looking forward to that episode.
Incredible video. Nice work. Will check out the album
Great video!! boygenius is the thinking lesbians’ Tegan and Sara!
Great idea!! I like to discover new music so I encourage you to keep doing this more often. After watching the video, I checked out a couple of their songs and they are great!!! Thank you!! I think your great taste in music shows (from the Monkees to Neutral Milk Hotel and everything in between)
“Cool About It” just destroys me.
I recommend the Roches if you haven't heard them yet. Especially their album Keep On Doing. Couldn't help but think of them when I heard The Record.
Vinyl Friday!!!!!! Hopefully this will continue
ah i can’t see this happening too often. two deep dives a week is a LOT but this one was fun!
I saw the Boy Genius Rolling Stones magazine cover at the grocery store. I didn't have a clue who they were.
Thanks to this video, I am now aware.
What a pleasant surprise. Thank you for introducing me to a band I was unfamiliar with. I've checked out their music on YT and I love their tunes and harmonies. They remind me of First Aid Kit, another band I would strongly recommend. Kudos for your great taste in music, Abi!
i loved first aid kit, i remember back when their single was free on itunes! great stuff
@@abigaildevoe One of the most moving performances of First Aid Kit I saw on YT was them performing their tribute song "Emmylou" for Emmylou Harris. She blew them kisses from the audience and was in tears by the end of their performance. So amazing!
I didn't really know them, apart from Phoebe (an intense writer), so after the clue picture you put up I listened to True Blood which was enjoyable for a kind of gentle insistence and saw some performance material where I thought their sound was atmospheric.
It's important that there is a super group for now, vital that it's three young women taking centre stage together and I like the signals that they're sending out. The structuring of the two Vinyl Monday episodes this week has been excellent and allowed you to champion the theme of working together, becoming stronger through cooperation.
i'm glad you enjoyed this 2-parter excursion, thanks so much!
Boygenius definitely has potential from what I’ve heard so far!
From watching this video of yours, I felt the impulse to search for 'The Film'... I have to admit that I have not been moved much by a lot of current music music but I am glad to have been turned on to Boy Genius because of you. I genuinely really really liked all 3 songs and loved the videos for each song. Thank you.
Of course I´m going to go out and hear tis album after the video.
boygenius. They're each so awesome in their own write. I got into Julien first (not the first person ever, just in the order I listened to each of them). I think I read about her in The New Yorker or something and watch so many YT videos of her. Then I heard about Phoebe through a Jackson Browne interview and then Lucy when boygenius was on KEXP and NPR Tiny Desk. Then I bought ALL the solo works and the boygenius EP. I think I am a Julien fan. Definitely love Sprained Ankle. I find it way cool that Jackson Browne is on a version of Phoebe's Kyoto and that Phoebe makes a cameo in Jackson's Cleveland Heart video. I really like boygenius - The Record. It's fun and serious. Seriously fun without overdoing it. No pretentiousness. Sort of like, but different style than, I'm With Her (Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O'Donovan, & Sara Watkins) another supergroup of women with brilliant songwriters with solo records as well as separate groups for two of them.
I like Julien's electric guitar playing and use of pedals. She went to music school in Nashville, right? I forget. I like Phoebe's scream on $20. Very informed by Kurt Cobain but with a sense of humor. That must be Phoebe fingerpicking guitar on Cool About It and Revolution 0. Maybe? Those songs are very beautiful. I hear an alternate tuning on Leonard Cohen. Maybe? I like the pure vocals of Julien on Anti-Curse. The passion is so gut wrenching and authentic. I feel like there are so many layers to unpack on this record. I have a difficult time diving into the lyrics because they are ultra poetic and referential. It'll take me time. The power of 3 is synergistic. I have the CD so I don't have that inner groove. Bummer. Me too have to listen to Lucy's solo material more. Love Lucy's songs on The Record. Thanks for the Friday surprise - very super duper Abby!!!
We need a video for Tunnel under ocean blv
Thanks for the bonus content Abbie.❤
I know they're "country" but the Pistol Annie's is more of an all-female "supergroup" imo. Their first album (of their 2) is all-around pretty great. Worth listening to if you're a fan of women singers.
Also, if you keep this an occasional feature, a modern group that would be cool is the female-led group Cellar Darling. They verge on metal but they feature a Hurdy Gurdy, flute, piano in addition to guitar and drums. Anna Murphy is the singer with a great voice. Their song "Insomnia" is a great 7 minute song.
You can tell who wrote exactly what Lyrics in the zine because they use their own handwriting and you'll notice it switch sometimes within songs.
Yay - extra Easter Abby! I hadn't previously heard of Boygenius (boygenius?) but I first caught Phoebe Bridger on YT when she sang a Bo Burnham song (very well). I subsequently bought 'Punisher' but really didn't get on with it I'm afraid, so I'm not ever so thirsty to hear more. Sorry.
Okay, I'm sold. I keep running into a feature about boygenius everywhere I turn. It's a sign from the musical Gods. I'm somewhat familiar with Phoebe Bridgers & Lucy Dacus. Can't wait to hear it now.
Thank you
Have always been aware of Phoebe Bridgers because of my friends being fans of hers and her feature on Man on The Moon 3, and I've also been aware of this super group because of said friends of mine.
This vinyl monday (my dyslexia is kicking in because I think it says Friday) actually wants me to check this record out.
And I know your fit for the Unknown Pleasures is gonna be one of your all time best. 🗿
nice! i was hoping this video would get people’s interest. it’s a little outside of the norm but i don’t like settling into a comfort zone.
the unknown pleasures fit is minimum effort maximum results
I’m sorry, but the clip of phoebe screaming the twenty dollars line is so funny out of context 😭😭😭
it’s funny any way you cut it, the arm is TOO much. and the fact that this isn’t the only vid of her screaming into the mic in an empty room makes it even better
As part of your core audience, 90% of my vinyl is from 1965-1982, BUT I was turned on to Julien Baker a couple years ago and loved her first two albums, Sprained Ankle and Turn Out The Lights. I am partial to female singer-songwriters, and these two were right up my alley. I wasn’t as fond of Little Oblivions as I feel the extra orchestration took away from the stripped down simplicity of her previous work, which is what I loved and made it harder to focus on her lyrics. But maybe that’s just me. Regardless, I will stream some of Boygenius and the others’ solo work to see if any of it clicks with me.
Have you ever considered reviewing any of the Seattle bands,
Very important movement in rock n roll history! Just like the British Invasion/psychedelic counterculture in the 60’s, punk in 70’s / new wave in the 80’s and obviously the 90’s alt/grunge scene. Second British Invasion in the mid 90’s! Ooo we’ll also mention the garage rock revival of the 2000’s with bands like the White Stripes and The Strokes! So much more onwards but you get the point. Our ole friend rock n roll is always on the move something big is about to come it’s been 30 years since the Seattle scene! 20 since the Strokes debut. Oroborus, history repeats itself and it’s about time for another movement! I’m ready
I LOVE BOYGENIUS and I'm honestly surprised your audience doesn't know (or knew) who they are (or were)... It might be early to say but I'd say this album is gonna be one of my favs this year
my core audience is older than me so i don’t blame them for not being hip on boygenius. but i do hope they give this one a chance!
Yes, I listened to some of this album. "$20" is some good, proggy math-rock! I dig it! Reminds me a bit of some St. Vincent. And the end of the song has echoes of The Fire Theft (a.k.a. Sunny Day Real Estate, sort of).
Have you ever listened to Skating Polly? I think you would like them. Not a supergroup, bit they are a modern day girl band. They honestly might be the best band around at the moment. Their new album.comes out in June. Check 'em.out! Or not. I'm not your boss.
abby = girlgenius
I too am an old geezer and it is fun to hear about a new disc that would not think of trying on Spotify. Now and then you should do others. You said you like Taylor Swift, perhaps you should do your fav from her.
i have bigger plans for introducing taylor to the channel
@@abigaildevoe This sounds exciting. 🙂
This is cool. I didn't know this one. Do more like this. Newer stuff. Mix it in.
will do! it’ll take a couple weeks to get to
@@abigaildevoe Yeah, just whenever. I like to see the pushing of boundaries. Swell.
I got my CSN LP two days ago. It arrived really quick. Unfortunately this newer repressing, even though it's really clean and had no surface noise or problems like that, didn't have a great mix And it was a Bernie Grundman mastered LP too complete with the BG etching in the runout. It's very heavy on the bass with the mid-range and highs not being as pronounced as I would hope. I got over on the Steve Hoffman forum and most people thought it was the second to third best sounding copy. It was a 2009 reissue but I still can't tell if it was a remaster and Disgogs doesn't say that it is. I'm wondering if it was just left off because it is an upgrade apparently to the original release. I'm happy with it even though I do wish it sounded a little bit better. But it still sounds great and there will probably be future remasters of it I'm sure that might improve on the sound quality?
I've never heard of this band your reviewing today. So I'm going to get back to letting the video play and see what I can learn about them 👍
Brian in Fort Worth 🎶
I know you mentioned a few videos back that you where going to try to do some recent music reviews. I hope that everyone out there who watches you shows their support by equally watching these videos as well. As someone born in the sixties and grew up in the seventies, I am proud of the younger audience that truly appreciates vintage rock. I also like some newer bands... I say that with tongue-in-cheek. I've been a huge fan of Yo La Tengo, My Bloody Valentine, and Stereolab since the nineties.
i hope my audience is willing to try something new too, i’m glad you are! expect some more content like this
Nice surprise review. I love this Indie Pop, Indie Folk thing for years. I love the solo music from Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus. I loved the previous EPs. This band is an awesome spin off of their own stuff. I was introduced first to Phoebe by other four ladies I love: St. Vincent, Angel Olsen, Caroline Polachek (her previous band Chairlift is awesome) and Maggie Rogers on some interviews they did over 2017-2020 on which they talked about Phoebe, Julien, Lucy and other artists I like too like Snail Mail, Grouper, Soccer Mommy, Mitski, and Lera Lynn. Hope you would like to check them out.
I'm with you on most of those, and I'd throw in one of my personal favorites Sharon Van Etten.
I'm hoping they will recruit Jessica Lea Mayfield to fulfill the Neil Young role for the next album....
Well that was a surprise . No , I never heard of any of them . Guess it's a generation thing . Will I check them out ? Maybe . You seem so enthusiastic about them so I guess I give it a try . You should listen to another all girl(woman) group . Three sisters called ,' The Roaches ' Tight harmonies , very interesting . Were around in the 80"s .Saw them live a number of times .Great performers .
Hi. I'm an old Canadian fart living in Japan . . . been here since 1980!! Found your program & have been tuning in for quite a while. I look forward to Vinyl Tuesdays (we're a day ahead here). I love your freshness, honesty, humour (Canadian spelling) & your take on most stuff but . . . 'geniusboy'?? Gave it two, almost three listenings. I can understand the angst & anger of people your age but . . . no. Not just the anger, but sheesh, just not very good. At all. Stick with the stuff you know & like. PS - Faces - First Step. First album I ever bought. Check it out.
if this wasn't the stuff i know and like, it wouldn't be on the channel :)
@@abigaildevoe Sorry to have rubbed you the wrong way, no offense meant, Just piquedl my curiousity that you talk about Supergroups -- CSN & Y, perhaps Cream, The Travelling Wilburys, etc with a . . . well, they have talent, they are smart, they have potential. But supergroup? Anyway, love your channel.
Sorry I'm late, Miss Devoe. Can you sign my hall pass?
does this mean the blue rev review is a possibility? :3
blue rev review is an inevitability. end of may
@@abigaildevoe YIIPPEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
Are those Abigail DeVoe ballet videos from 5 years ago on you tube in any way connected to...Abby?
haha definitely not
boygenius=girlgenius...surprise!
cleverlad - an album
Vinyl Friday… hmm…
Maybe if you wear your Dr Martens enough they’ll let you in, just ike Neil Young and CSN. Just saying...
i’m not canadian enough to be the neil young but i can shake a tambourine and sing ok harmony. i hope that’s enough
The problem is that she probably really does nothing else in her life and the music suffers from that. And it's not a good sign that at least some of David Crosby songs are way better than this whole album.
More of the newer breed. I've grown tired of the overexposed dinosaur acts. It's nice to visit the distant past but it pays to be progressive and move forward.
Yes, your "core" audience needs to be exposed to talent like this... how else is one to discover the likes of Dope Lemon, The Be Good Tanyas or Stoned Jesus??? keep it going you 21st Century Lady of the Canyon..
Boy who???
This is very queerly not a monday