Tree-Mix, Volume 1
(WorldNews Music)

Every week, the Daily´s Music beat comes together to make the Tree-Mix, a playlist of recommendations of the music that helps us get through the week. Here are our picks for this week: Jacob Kuppermann, Music Desk Editor (jkupperm ‘at’ stanford.edu) Julien Baker – `Appointments`: Julien Baker´s music is sad and beautiful, but not, per se, beautiful in its sadness - none of her songs valorize pain or suffering, make glamorous the things that gnaw at you and try to destroy you. `Appointments,` the lead single off her sophomore effort, `Turn Off the Lights,` is the most fully-formed thing she´s made yet; the beauties and sadnesses here are that much sharper as the arrangement...