Julien Baker

One Liner: Beautiful acoustic folky emo

Poster Position: 20

Thoughts:  Very simple stuff, but this is damn pretty music.  She's got one album, 2015's Sprained Ankle, that showcases the songs she write with very little in the way of instrumentation or flourish, and then a live Spotify Sessions set of songs as well.  Her most listened to track is also her most popular, with just over 5 million streams, this is "Everybody Does."

Criminy, man.  That is beautiful, and powerful, and sad.  Hot damn.  She's got three other songs that top 1.5 million streams, so she's not burning up the world but is getting a good number of listens.  Here is the title track to her album, "Sprained Ankle," which has 1.5 million streams.

If she's a day over 12, I'd be shocked.  Weird video with no explanation for why she's rocking an eight grader's basketball uniform.  But another lovely song.  Super simple, but the lyrics are so good. Here is a good interview with her about what it is like to be queer and Christian in the south - interesting read.  This is beautiful music, and I'm going to add this to my Q of music to keep listening to in general, but I can't imagine that these quiet and precious songs would translate well to the big stage in Zilker.  Maybe I'm wrong.