Later this month, the good super-trio boygenius will lastly launch the file, their long-awaited full-length debut. Yesterday, the group shared their single “Not Strong Enough.” Just a few hours later, they performed their first reside present in practically two years. boygenius had been last-minute additions to the annual Tibet House US profit present.
At final evening’s profit, boygenius solely performed two songs. Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus began off their set by enjoying “Not Strong Enough” reside for the primary time. After that, they took a left flip. They lined “Cool About It,” a 2021 single from the Canadian pop-country artist Meghan Patrick.
I’d positively by no means heard “Cool About It” earlier than, but it surely’s music, and the boygenius cowl is beautiful. In a method, that call flashes again to the 2018 boygenius tour, the place the group would usually cowl completely different songs throughout their encore performances on the finish of the evening. Maybe future boygenius reveals will function related sudden covers, too.
Here’s a comparatively close-up video of the “Cool About It” cowl:
And right here’s a video, taken from additional away, of the entire music:
Meanwhile, right here’s a close-up video of boygenius doing “Not Strong Enough”:
And right here’s the total music, as soon as once more filmed from additional away:
the file is out 3/31 on Interscope/Polydor. The subsequent deliberate boygenius reside present goes down 4/15, through the first Coachella weekend.