Today’s a good day for fans of Julien Baker. The first bit of news is the release of new song “Hardline,” which is the latest single from her forthcoming album Little Oblivions. The song arrives with a brilliant and chaotic stop-motion music video directed by Joe Baughman.
Watch the paper characters go on their destructive run in the “Hardline” music video above.
Coinciding with these releases, Julien Baker’s KEXP session performance is dropping today! The set closes with a mighty fine cover of Soundgarden’s “Fell on Black Days.” Stream that below.
Pre-order Little Oblivions here.
Julien says of the new release via a press release:
A few years ago I started collecting travel ephemera again with a loose idea of making a piece of art with it. I had been touring pretty consistently since 2015 and had been traveling so much that items like plane tickets and hotel keycards didn’t have much novelty anymore. So I saved all my travel stuff and made a little collage of a house and a van out of it. I wanted to incorporate it into the record and when we were brainstorming ideas for videos we came across Joe Baughman and really liked his work so we reached out with the idea of making a stop-motion video that had similar aesthetic qualities as the house I built did. I don’t know why I have the impulse to write songs or make tiny sculptures out of plane tickets. But here it is anyway: a bunch of things I’ve collected and carried with me that I’ve re-organized into a new shape.
