• Source: The Rest (EP)

The Rest is the second extended play by American indie rock supergroup Boygenius, released through Interscope Records on October 13, 2023. A follow-up to the band's first full-length album The Record, individual songs were revealed one at a time while on tour, eventually performing the entire EP. The EP has received positive reviews from critics.




Reception


According to the review aggregator Metacritic, The Rest received "generally favorable reviews" based on a weighted average score of 75 out of 100 from six critic scores. Editors at AllMusic rated this album 3.5 out of 5 stars, with critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine writing that "the EP feels a bit hushed when compared to the LP, a quietness that helps shift the focus to the individual singer/songwriters rather than the collective" and called this "a welcome coda to the relative exuberance of The Record". This album was shortlisted as notable for the week at BrooklynVegan, where Andrew Sacher opined that "this material is just as strong as the songs on the full-length". Alex Hudson of Exclaim! chose this as a Staff Pick stating that "as we near the end of 2023, it reasserts boygenius as one of the year's defining bands, and even more than the sum of their formidable parts". El Hunt of Evening Standard gave this EP 4 out of 5 stars, writing that "The Rest feels less cohesive than The Record, and rather than a love letter to accidentally stumbling on creative alchemy, Dacus, Baker and Bridgers all get their own moments in the spotlight" and called it "the perfect debut companion piece".
Alana Rae praised the storytelling in this album in her review for The New Zealand Herald, writing that "the four songs follow complex, often melancholic, relationships with others or, in some cases, themselves". Thomas Smith of NME gave The Rest 4 out of 5 stars, stating that "there’s material... that could have fought hard for space on their debut album". Olivia Horn, writing for Pitchfork Media, scored this album a 7.5 out of 10, stating that it is "aglow with the sense of triumph that has haloed the group’s recent history". In Spill Magazine, this was an editor's pick and critic Joseph Mastel rated it 4.5 out of 5, concluding "it might not reach the perfection of the record, but the rest is still a magnificent group of songs". Marc Abbott of Under the Radar rated this EP 6 out of 10, writing that while "there are moments of brilliance" here, but that it "comes across as sounding like that’s exactly what they deserve and need: a rest".
Editors at Spin chose this as the 21st best EP of 2023.




Track listing


All songs written by Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus, except where noted

"Black Hole" – 2:21
"Afraid of Heights" – 2:41
"Voyager" (Baker, Bridgers, Dacus, Christian Lee Hutson, Conor Oberst, and Marshall Vore) – 2:48
"Powers" – 4:14




Personnel


Boygenius

Julien Baker – instrumentation, vocals, lead vocals on first verse of "Black Hole" and all of "Powers", production
Phoebe Bridgers – instrumentation, vocals, co-lead vocals on second verse of "Black Hole", lead vocals on all of "Voyager", production
Lucy Dacus – instrumentation, vocals, co-lead vocals on second verse of "Black Hole", lead vocals on all of "Afraid of Heights", production
Additional personnel

Ariel Baldwin – design
Tony Berg – production
Jake Finch – keyboards, strings, sound design, production
Matt Grubb – cover photography
Ethan Gruska – keyboards, sound design, vocal engineering, production
Christian Lee Hutson – guitar
Calvin Lauber – bass guitar, sound design, vocal engineering, production
Will Maclellan – engineering
Mike Mogis – mixing
Collin Pastore – pedal steel guitar, sound design, engineering, production
Lowell Reynolds – engineering
Pat Sullivan – mastering
Marshall Vore – drums, production
Nathaniel Walcott – horn




Charts






See also


2023 in American music
List of 2023 albums




References






External links


The Rest at Discogs (list of releases)
The Rest at MusicBrainz (list of releases)
Press release for The Rest
"We Three Kings: boygenius On Their Breakout Year" at Stereogum

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