Julien Baker picks at the scabs over wounds you didn't realize hadn't fully healed in her sophomore album Turn Out The Lights. A pained instrumental opens the album I can only describe as a 3am lucid dream through severe depression, substance abuse, toxic codependency, and a do-or-die question following your every footstep like a shadow with a whisper that could rip your throat open. Julien's incredibly honest and carefully-crafted lyricism paints portraits of the darkest corners of an abandoned home inside the human soul while delivering them in raw, vulnerable, and captivating vocals. Anyone who has ever stepped foot in a church, or its basement, needs to listen to this album.Also worth noting: the vinyl includes a double sided poster featuring Julien on one side and all lyrics on the other!