the rest by Boygenius

The Rest, boygenius's second EP, arrived through Interscope on October 13, 2023, as a coda to the band's first full-length, The Record, the album that won Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus 3 Grammys and a Brit Award. Rather than drop it all at once, the trio rolled the songs out one by one on the road, until by the end of the tour they were playing the whole thing.

It's a quieter, smaller-hours companion to its big sibling, three singer-songwriters trading verses and folding their voices together over hushed indie rock, and "Afraid of Heights" is the one that lingers longest. Critics were warm on it, and with the group now on hiatus, these few songs sound a little like a goodbye note.

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