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- Summary: The follow-up release from indie supergroup Boygenius's 2023 debut full-length album is a four-track EP.
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- Record Label: Interscope
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Alternative Singer/Songwriter
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Oct 20, 2023Ignore the flippant title, there’s material on ‘The Rest’ that could have fought hard for space on their debut album.
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Oct 20, 2023the rest can be defined by its most insecure and self-deprecating moments. “Black Hole” opens the EP with what is probably the lightest of the four tracks, but rest assured, the other three deliver the depth and emotional resonance that boygenius fans have come to expect.
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Oct 20, 2023The Rest closes its fist around the ideas that Baker, Bridgers, and Dacus have been reaching toward—that values are more worth living than dying for, that our feelings of difference and dysfunction can be fonts of power.
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Oct 23, 2023The EP's wistful quality combined with its brevity can make The Rest seem almost unassuming, but it's not slight: it's a welcome coda to the relative exuberance of The Record.
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Oct 20, 2023Everywhere ‘the rest’ feels less collaborative than ‘the record,’ and more about celebrating the three of them as friends.
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Oct 20, 2023What the record-buying public arguably doesn’t need is an EP that sounds a little rough around the edges, lasts for precisely 12 minutes, 4 seconds. ... But wait, there are moments of brilliance on the rest.