Remember when you had to wait five years in between Boygenius drops? No more. Just six months after the release of the indie rock supergroup’s debut album The Record, Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker have announced that their new EP titled The Rest is on its way this fall.
The trio surprised fans by unveiling the EP’s cover art — a beachside photo of the three members’ shadowy silhouettes, shot by Matt Grub — on social media Monday evening (Sept. 25), also revealing that the four-track project will arrive Oct. 13. And, as each of the musicians pointed out on their individual accounts, Oct. 13 just so happens to be Friday the 13th. (Spooky!)
Bridgers, Dacus and Baker also shared the name of the first of the project’s four songs, “Black Hole,” which they debuted live at their Boston concert the night of the EP announcement. In place of the other three tracks, the band left asterisks teasing each title.
Fans aren’t used to getting new music from Boygenius so soon after another project; it wasn’t until five years after the three soloists first united for 2018’s Boygenius EP that they finally released The Record as their followup. Accompanied by a still ongoing world tour, The Record reached No. 4 on the Billboard 200 upon its release and has garnered Grammy buzz for possible album of the year at the 2024 awards.
“We were told, if we were lucky, maybe we were going to break top 10,” Dacus told Billboard of The Record‘s success in April. “And then it was, actually, maybe we could break top five. And the fact that it’s [No. 4] is cool.”
“I think people know this is a rarity and that there’s no guarantee that it’ll continue,” she added. “Like, we will continue to be Boygenius and be friends, but we also will get back to our own things. So I think people have this awareness that to be present with it now is really to be existing in a moment.”
See Boygenius’ EP announcement for The Rest below:
