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| 4.0 excellent | YakNips | November 16th 15 |
stop whatever ur doing and listen to this instead
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| 3.5 great | zaruyache | January 3rd 16 |
The singer/songwriter genre is full of sad girls singing to acoustic guitars and pianos, but
"Sprained Ankle" still somehow sets itself apart from the rest.
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| 1.0 awful | treeqt. | December 27th 15 |
too bad this is so well recorded or the boring music would almost sound interesting
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| 5.0 classic | shoshjort | January 24th 17 |
there isn't a single weak track on this album, sure some are better than others (Brittle Boned > Everybody Does) but even the songs you think are the weak ones at first grow on you within a few listens. Julien is an amazing songwriter and I'm excited for another LP in the near future
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| 5.0 classic | Slex | November 3rd 15 |
Might be cuz I'm listening to Cocksure a lot currently, but this sounds a LOT like Sit Resist era Laura rStevenson, which is a fantastic thing. This is beautiful.
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| 4.5 superb | Lucman | June 5th 18 |
There are a severely limited number of albums I would recommend to anyone, regardless of genre preference, to listen to at least once. Julien Baker's Sprained Ankle is one of those albums. It exposes the fears of self-worth we all hide and it invites us to share them openly. There is a subtle comfort in the unrelenting sadness, a relief in bringing to light a desperate need to share our pain with another. It's a beautiful thing to behold.
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| 4.5 superb | DadEsquire | April 19th 16 |
If there's one album from 2015 I would force everyone to listen to, it'd be this one. It's an
incredibly intimate and emotionally hard-hitting record due to the sparseness in the soundscapes
and the vulnerability in the lyrics. The songs are mostly just Baker and her guitar, gently
plucking away at the strings and using a looper pedal to layer melodies on top of the rhythms. The
songs sound empty and lonely, matching perfectly with the albums lyrical content touching on
death, depression, substance abuse, and suicide. It's an incredibly personal album to the point
that, similar to Carrie & Lowell, it almost feels as if the listener really shouldn't be hearing
these songs.
In the midst of all this is Baker's relationship with God. It's a complicated one, with her asking
questions like, "I wrote you love letters, and sung them in my house...the broken strings and
amplifiers scream with holy noise / in hopes to draw you out, but if no one sings along are you
still proud of when I open my mouth?" on the opener "Blacktop." On "Vessels," Baker reflects on
the brokenness and blackness of her own body and soul, and how her broken body is just a "house
for [her] eyes purchased with a bleeding side." She ends the album with an instrumental of "In
Christ Alone" at the end of "Go Home." During recording, her preamp picked up a radio transmission
of a nearby church, sort of as an answer to Baker's constant cries to him throughout the album.
Seriously. Listen to this album. It's incredible.
FAVORITE TRACKS: Blacktop, Sprained Ankle, Good News, Something, Vessels, Go Home
LEAST FAVORITE TRACKS: None
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| 0.0 | bach | January 23rd 16 |
i can't think of anyone else. i won't think anyone else.
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| 2.5 average | Gene Gol CONTRIBUTOR | October 9th 23 |
"Sprained Ankle" nearly becomes ambient with its minimal arrangement. Julien lets a lot of her lyrics do the heavy lifting, which only works so often.
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| 4.0 excellent | Erwann S. STAFF | November 29th 19 |
Beautiful pain. Extremely pretty and sad record, I just feel I can't connect enough with it to give it more than a 4. Might well be one of the most poignant records of the decade.
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| 4.0 excellent | LRS94 | November 22nd 18 |
I've come to the conclusion that this record is one that speaks for itself in the most intimate of ways. Relating to each listener in the soft melancholic strums and atmosphere it produces it encapsulates the feeling of every listeners inner demons at all the right times.
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