The 405 meets Julien Baker: "I hope that my music makes the listener feel understood, and makes them feel mercy and grace."

Julien Baker arrived in 2015 with her debut album Sprained Ankle, an album that starkly expressed the complexities of the human condition as filtered through a poetic queer Christian teen songwriter growing up in Tennessee. It found praise and admirers far and wide, gradually increasing in notoriety over a couple of years, eventually leading to a reissue on renowned indie label Matador earlier this year. On Friday, Baker released her second album Turn Out The Lights on Matador. It's an album tha...