Pity Boy

Though the subject matter gets heavy, Blum’s wry, self-aware sense of humor weaves its way throughout the record. Pity Boy’s pithy title was “just a funny pun I thought of, like, a sad pretty boy,” Blum explains. It’s a worthy expansion on 2015’s You Look A Lot Like Me (Blum’s fourth album, but their label debut). Since then, Blum has become one of Don Giovanni’s most popular artists. They’ve toured relentlessly, both solo and with a band, most notably this year traveling in support of Lucy Dacus as well as the live show of popular podcast Welcome to Night Vale. It’s impactful to listen to these songs through a transgender lens – and some of the songs do touch on Blum’s experience coming out as non-binary and transgender, a never-ending project in a starkly binary world - but truthfully, all these songs offer crashes of loneliness and sparks of euphoric recognition that will feel familiar to anyone surviving in 2019. 01. Things Still Left To Say 02. Not My Job 03. See Me 04. Odds 05. Splinter 06. Black Coffee 07. Did You Get What You Wanted 08. I Don't Want To 09. Salt Flats 10. Well, Fuck 11. Gotta Go 12. Maybe I'll Wait