Little Oblivions was recorded in Baker’s hometown of Memphis, Tennessee
between December 2019 and January 2020. It was engineered by Calvin Lauber and
mixed by Craig Silvey (The National, Florence & the Machine, Arcade Fire).
Baker’s tactile guitar and piano playing are enriched with newfound textures
encompassing bass, drums, synthesisers, banjo and mandolin, with nearly all of
the instruments performed by Baker. The album weaves unflinching autobiography
with assimilated experience and often hard-won observations from the past few
years, taking Baker’s capacity for starkly galvanising storytelling to
breath-taking new heights.
Little Oblivions is the follow up to Baker’s 2017 sophomore album and
first on Matador Turn Out The Lights. The New York Times said the LP is “the
work of a songwriter who has resonated with an international audience (…), the
rare second album that, despite new self-consciousness, stretches beyond an
unspoiled debut to reach for even bigger things, with all its passion intact”.
The Sunday Times said “the mix of detached vocals, lush arrangements and
laid-bare post-mortems on love, loss, dysfunction and acceptance is
devastating".
In 2018 Baker formed boygenius with Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus. The
resulting eponymous EP and joint North American tour made for one of the most
celebrated and talked about musical communions of 2018, highlighting Baker at
the forefront of a burgeoning generation of era-defining artists.
