There’s a hushed silence around the Bush Hall tonight, quite unlike anything the venue has seen so far this year. When the blistering applause that greets Julien Baker on stage dies down and is replaced by the reverberating harmonics that start ‘Sprained Ankle’, there’s a communal, sharp intake of breath that doesn’t get released until she departs just over an hour later.

Beginning with four tracks from her debut LP, by the time a flurry of new songs pepper the middle of the set, any newcomers are already converted. “Wish I could write songs about anything other than death,” goes the show’s first lyrics, and though things don’t get cheerier from there, there’s a determination shown from Baker, and in turn the sold-out crowd, to forge good from her undoubtedly sorrowful output.

Before beginning a trio of new songs, from a new album she reveals to be arriving in October, the Tennessee native says the record is to be about accepting the flawed parts of yourself and the ones you can’t change. In highlight ‘Happy To Be Here’, she fantasises about becoming an electrician and rummaging around, rewiring her own brain.