Last week, or whenever the hell it was, we were surprised, like a few others, to see boygenius listed to play this year’s Coachella festival. The celebrated indie-folk trio of Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus has been laying relatively low since dropping a handful of demos back in 2020, two short years after first serenading our lonely days and crowded nights with their self-titled and self-produced EP.
Turns out the melodic triple-play collaboration had a new trick up the ol’ collective sleeve, and today (January 18) boygenius has unveiled three new songs in “$20,” “Emily I’m Sorry”, and “True Blue.” There’s a bit of an added thump to this new batch of tunes, a notion most evident on the propulsive “$20,” and all will be featured on boygenius’ forthcoming debut album the record, set for March 31 release via Interscope.
Produced and written by boygenius and recorded at Shangri-la Studios in Malibu, the record hits, appropriately enough, just before Baker, Bridgers, and Dacus take the Coachella stage together on consecutive Saturdays, April 15 and 22.
Get into the new joints below.