Baby Smith, project of Australia-born, Berlin-based Ray Sonder and Saxon Gable share another slice of their elegant pop with new single “Walkie Talkie“. The band are set to release their debut album ‘Lately, Love Is Dead‘ on July 10th.
Here’s what the band have to say about the track:
‘Walkie Talkie’ is us shining a light on our past insecurities and self-doubt. Lyrically, we immersed ourselves in our past experiences, navigating relationships where we struggled to stay rational and fight off the paranoia of being with someone we couldn’t completely trust. When someone is saying one thing and doing another, you feel torn about what the reality of your circumstances actually are. Which side of them can be trusted? What is the nature of your relationship? Are they in or out? All these questions come up in your head and in reality just the nature of those questions or the fact that they arise in the first place should be enough to make you see the truth but denial can be a cunning enemy. We had these ghosts of the past show their faces and some long gone experiences were going through our heads when writing this. The colour and texture of the song came out in technicolour and somewhat care free but to us the emotion is mirky and claustrophobic. Contrast in songwriting is important and contradiction can create a nice tension sonically, we really played with this concept in Walkie Talkie.
The pair grew up in sleepy beach towns on Australia’s east coast. Their parents were hippies and rockers. They were spoon fed Nirvana and The Beatles on the car stereo as so many of us were at that age. Both self taught musicians, they began writing songs from a young age, evoking the quiet beaches of Byron Bay and the Gondwana Rainforest that were their back yards.
The pair each moved to Berlin from Sydney separately and within two weeks of each other to explore new subcultures and write songs. They met, and soon married, spiritually united by their affection for the whimsical, intimate, deeply melodic sounds of 1960s psychedelia and 1990s Grunge. What followed their creative union was musical exploration and experiments that led to the genesis of Baby Smith in 2023.
Catch them this September as they tour the UK.
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