Baby Wave – Green Girls (2023)
If you are a fan of Elliot Smith, The Velvet Underground, The White Stripes, The Smiths, Sufjan Stevens or Big Thief, you will probably enjoy US trio Baby Wave. Appealing to diverse audiences, Baby Wave is barely on the scene and already gaining a loyal following through its confident live performances. With a twinkle in their eye and a cheeky grin, Jakob Bibb, Brooke Vespoli and Gardner Gottsegen can captivate your mind, body and soul with a single chord. Come with us as we dip our toes into Baby Wave’s debut single ‘Green Girls’.
Weaving delicate indie-pop and folk tones into their unique prog-twee production, ‘Green Girls’ is one of those songs from coming-of-age films like Juno. Simplistic and barebones, the acoustic guitar oozes warmth as Vespoli and Bibb traipse across the melody with their harmonic but vulnerable vocals. Just when you get into the laidback vibe of this acoustic gem, an explosive blast of guitars rushes at your head leading you out with a brash, abrupt vocal screech.
Intimate and enticing, Baby Wave cradle you in a certain degree of warmth with ‘Green Girls’. Yet, while there is a sonic embrace in the innocent offering, the vocals drip a sense of human fragility, melancholy and innocent rawness. With their poignant, profound lyricism, the lads and lady plunge into a kaleidoscopic intensity but continue to teeter on the surface in a childish whimsy.
Sophisticated but rough, soft but scratchy, mellifluous but dotted with tints of profound pain, ‘Green Girls’ is something familiar but outstandingly different. If this is only their first release, I am eager to hear what else Baby Wave has to offer.
For more from Baby Wave, check out their Instagram and Spotify.
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