The trio is strolling along the beach with the kind of swagger the Backstreet Boys had in their “Anywhere for You” video. It’s all real, though: The three generation-defining songwriters of boygenius got together last year for the first time since their debut EP in 2018, knocked off a fantastic debut album, and are here this morning to start talking about it all for the first time. “We’re meeting you in purgatory,” says Dacus, 27. When I express this thought aloud, Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus - otherwise known as boygenius - erupt with laughter. Or maybe I died and I’m in some kind of hazy afterlife, one where you get to hang out with the world’s most exciting indie band. It feels like one of Tony Soprano’s dreams. The late-November sky is the precise shade of a cerulean crayon, and the lighting is almost too perfect. IN MALIBU, and Zuma Beach is empty, save for a husky on the shore and a surfer waist-deep in the ocean.
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