Now that the initial album release discourse has exited our timelines, the music is speaking for itself. These late autumn feels are especially extending a warmer invitation to embrace their art’s impact, as the unstoppable force that is boygenius’ the record is arguably a better experience giving wat into today than it was eight months ago. As the long-awaited debut full-length and follow-up to the supergroup’s beloved 2019 extended play, the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost of alternative pop-rock that is alto wordsmith Lucy Dacus, punk songwriter Julien Baker, and the ubiquitous pioneer of the modern sad girl aesthetic, Phoebe Bridgers, encapsulate an extraordinary moment within the popular music songbook where the trio’s friendship goals, kindred creative kinship, and the queer stan community championing their ascents from cult fav indie rockers to a pop culture reference point is creating something much bigger of their music than what they imagined in merging, humbly, in harmony, a fine point articulation of their own respective folk-pop introspections, and equal shine for one another’s light. The masses may have in turn anointed boygenius as the unlikeliest of saviors of rock stardom, but it wouldn’t be that without the spiritual experience that is channeled through their combined songwriting superpowers and an earnest means to lift each others’ voices up.

Highlights: “$20”, “Not Strong Enough”, “Leonard Cohen”

boygenius’ The Record is available now on Interscope Records.

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