WATCH: boygenius release the film, directed by Kristen Stewart

Indie supergroup boygenius have unveiled their new short, the film, to accompany their debut album (out today), the record.

The trio – comprising Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus – released the 14-minute The Film after Stewart was touted to direct three of the band’s music videos.

Featuring Boygenius’ first three singles from their LP (‘$20’, ‘Emily I’m Sorry’ and ‘True Blue’), the visuals begin with Dacus humming along to The Record opener ‘Without You Without Them’ before Baker wakes up in a red race car bed.

Later, Bridgers takes the lead for the ‘Emily I’m Sorry’ section as she sings in a stadium while monster trucks drive around her. The musician’s bandmates then arrive on the scene. Dacus hands Bridgers two matches, with Baker lighting them.

The ‘True Blue’ section sees Dacus paint a room blue with help from the other two members of Boygenius. In the closing moments of The Film, the trio are seen lying under a duvet together as the camera pans away.

In a four-star review of The Record for Hot Press, Will Russell heaps praise on the three-piece.

"Nirvana obsessed over similar affairs; however, boygenius’ version is more tempered, more Snow Patrol. On college rock banger ‘$20’, they deliver a slab of Springsteen tropes – all night motorcycle rides to Reno, T-bird graveyards, Chevvies on cinder blocks – across not one but several sick riffs. Headbanging delirium continues on The Replacements-nodding, hilariously self-deprecating ‘Satanist’: scoring offbrand ecstasy, tagging ATMs, chucking out the TV – reliable archetypes of teenage rebellion.

Across the ‘90s retro, lo-fi feel of ‘Emily I’m Sorry’ and the crisscrossing Kerouac-indebted ‘True Blue’, boygenius ensnare the joy of wasteful detours. They also alluringly capture fleeting celestial moments such as on ‘Leonard Cohen’, while driving the wrong way on the interstate listening to Iron & Wine, reckoning on lost wandering being loaded with purpose."

boygenius announced details of their first ever Irish headline show earlier this week, with a huge outdoor date confirmed at Dublin’s Royal Hospital Kilmainham on August 28th.

The band will be supported by queer indie act MUNA. The three-piece is comprised of Katie Gavin (she/they), Naomi McPherson (they/them), and Josette Maskin (she/they).