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The Pitchfork Review

Boygenius Interview

The Pitchfork Review

Pitchfork

Music, Music Commentary, Music Interviews, Music History

3.3844 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Puja Patel chats with Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker, and Lucy Dacus about astrology, friendship, and their debut album as Boygenius.

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This is the Pitchfork Review. I'm Pooja Patel, the editor-in-chief. And today, I've got some very special guests in the studio. It is The Dudes of Voy Genius.

0:18.2

Phoebe Bridgers, Julian Baker, and Lucy Dacus are songwriters and musicians whose individual

0:23.4

releases have been some of our favorite over the past decade. In 2018, they brought their

0:29.3

distinct musical styles together to release a self-titled DP, which we gave Best New Music.

0:35.3

The album took on themes of vulnerability, heartache, and confronting

0:39.8

grief, and it only left fans wanting more. And now they're releasing a new album called The Record.

0:46.8

I am so excited that you're here. I wanted to start with something that I know that we have

0:52.6

thought a lot about collectively, which is our

0:55.2

astrological signs and what they tell us about ourselves. Do we all know our sun's risings and

1:03.5

moons? This is perfect. Yeah. Yes. Phoebe, let's start with you. What are your signs?

1:10.0

You're like skinny. I think I know yours.

1:11.5

I don't even really know mine.

1:12.8

But I do.

1:13.1

You're a Leo son. Yeah.

1:14.5

Hi-Case Rising. Capicorn moon?

1:16.3

Yes.

1:16.7

Hell yeah.

1:17.2

I don't know the most about Cap. walking down the four chess games going on at once and making a move and also thinking about,

1:28.6

like, I feel like I'm watching you consider like three things at once sometimes when we're all

1:34.8

working together.

1:36.0

I'm like watching the gears turn and it's like you're really in it all like focused and

1:41.5

dedicated.

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