Macaroni Birthday was so moved by the response to their first album, Macaroni Birthday Time, that they began working on song ideas not long after its release. The album features fourteen new songs about being comfortable with one's identity, friendship, having fun, and learning together through new experiences. The album is a stripped down, head bopping, collection of songs that call to mind punk and rock influences like the Ramones, Jonathan Richman,...

Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus formed boygenius after booking a tour together, but the trio had subconsciously been in the works for longer than that. Through a series of tours and performances together, and chance encounters that led to friendships ? including Bridgers? and Dacus? first in-person meeting backstage at a Philadelphia festival, greenroom hangouts that felt instantly comfortable and compatible, a couple of long email chains...