boygenius is the indie rock supergroup of Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus, formed in 2018 around a self-titled Matador EP. The Record (2023) took home three Grammys including Best Alternative Music Album, and it's the obvious starting point before working back to the EP. Explore boygenius vinyl, CDs, and reissues at Wax Trax Records.
boygenius formed in 2018 from the friendship and mutual respect of Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus, three indie rock singer-songwriters who had been independently building careers. They announced their collaboration alongside a joint tour and released a self-titled EP in October 2018 on Matador Records. After a five-year gap, they reunited for the full-length album The Record (March 2023), which received widespread critical acclaim and three Grammy Awards in 2024, including Best Alternative Music Album.
boygenius' sound combines indie rock, indie folk, and emo-adjacent songwriting traditions, with the three members trading vocal leads, contributing close harmonies, and writing collaboratively. Their work draws on a shared 1990s and 2000s indie influence set including Elliott Smith, Sleater-Kinney, and Death Cab for Cutie.
The boygenius catalog has been issued in extensive color variant pressings, including the heavily collected first pressing of the 2018 EP (Matador) and multiple retailer-exclusive editions of The Record.
Listeners new to boygenius typically start with The Record (2023) or the 2018 self-titled EP.
