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Ha! Gestern erst ergingen wir uns bezüglich der Top Alben des Monats Februar voller Vorfreude auf das kommende, im Band-Sound noch größer klingende neue Album der US-amerikanischen Songwriterin Julien Baker – heute spendiert die ansonsten auch in der Songwriter-Supergroup boygenius mit Phoebe Bridgers und Lucy Dacus tätige Musikerin den nächsten Vorboten daraus! Favor ist somit die nächste, mittlerweile dritte Single aus Little Oblivions, das am 26. Februar via Matador Records erscheinen wird und beinhaltet die Lyrics: “I used to think about myself, like I was a talented liar, turns out that all my friends were trying to do me a favor.” Entsprechend geben ihre befreundeten Kolleginnen von boygenius auch ihren Senf zu Julien, dem neuen Song und der Entstehungsgeschichte dahinter – Phoebe: “Julien is one of those people whose opinion you want to hear about everything. A true critical thinker with an ever-changing and ridiculously articulate worldview. Her music changes in the same way, and this record is my favorite thing she’s ever done. I’m sure I’ll think the same about the next one.”

Lucy: “We sang on Favor in Nashville the same day we recorded vocals for Graceland Too and a song of mine. That day had the same atmosphere as when we recorded the boygenius EP. Making music was just a natural result of being together, easy as can be but also rare in a way that feels irreplicable. I love the song for its stark but sensitive picture of friendship, what it looks like to recover from broken trust. Makes me think about how truth only ever breaks what should be broken, and how love is never one of those things. I’m always honored to be brought into Julien’s life and music.”