This Friday, February 26th, Julien Baker will release her new album Little Oblivions. Today she shared the fourth offering on the record, “Heatwave,” along with a lyric video by Sabrina Nichols. See below.
“Heatwave is really all about being exposed to the time I spend worrying about things that are trivial,” Baker said in a statement. “I was stuck in a traffic jam because a car happened to burn and I felt so stupid for worrying about the things I was worried about earlier that day. It was just so poignant, an event that communicated many complex things in a single image. So I wrote a song about it. “Find her full statement below.
On other Julien Baker news she reported on Radiohead’s “Everything in its right place” for an XMU live session. The full set will air on SiriusXMU tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern. Hear the cover below.
Little Oblivions follows Julien Baker’s 2017 album Turn Out the Lights. Before “Heatwave”, Baker released the new LPs “Faith Healer”, “Hardline” and “Favor”.
Julien Baker:
Maybe it’s a mundane or a well-worn topic, but “Heatwave” is really just about being exposed to the time I spend worrying about things that are trivial. I was stuck in a traffic jam because a car happened to burn and I felt so stupid for worrying about the things I was worried about earlier that day. It was just so poignant, an event that communicated many complex things in a single image. So I wrote a song about it. I know that I won’t be the first to witness an atrocity considering my own mortality or the fragility of life, but that really has been my experience. In theory, the teaching or symbolism to be interpreted there is that life is precious and it is not worth devoting your time and energy to negative thoughts, but Jesus, how could you be a person living on earth right now and none has negative thoughts? It is certainly less romantic to say that I felt relieved of my own inconsistency in the face of the fragility of life, but it is true; It’s comforting to think of the tiny role everyone plays in human drama to realize that we have more choices about what to put on ourselves than we might have thought.
