Two years ago, indie rock trio Boygenius showed Hardy he was a secret fan of Hardy in an interview fork. “We saw Hardy in Los Angeles recently and I lost my brain cells,” said Lucy Dacus, who formed a band with Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker. “The songwriting is great.”
When Hardy appears Rolling stones' Nashville nowwe asked the country songwriter if he knew Boygenius fanatics. He said thanks to his sister for sending him the original video. He has also been with the band since then.
“That's really cool. I didn't expect it at all,” Hardy said. “The way they describe it is very special, it's really cool. Julian is talking about it, it's tickling the weird itch in her brain or anything else, and I love this kind of stuff.”
With the country working with rock and pop artists reaching new heights, Hardy-Boygenius' collaboration will do its best. “Man, I'm here for that,” Hardy said of the idea.
Hardy releases his new album nation! nation! Earlier this month, I also talked in detail about what he has heard recently Nashville now. On his list are Melody Metal Band Sleep Tokens.
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“Metalheads love shit on sleep tokens, but, man, it's very fresh,” he said. “If you don't tell anyone what genre it is, but just listen to it and evaluate it: it's fresh, cool, the melody is the soup. His voice is very strong. There's a lot of big performance, I think it's cool, I think it's anonymous and spooky ass shit… on this weird ass… it's a cool thing.”
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