Every week, 88Nine music director Erin Wolf shares a sonic gem she found using her nearly 20 years of new-music exploration experience. You can hear all her discoveries live on 88Nine at 10 p.m. every Monday on What’s All This: Adventures in New Music.
Babehoven is the Hudson, New York-based project of Maya Bon and Ryan Albert, who recorded new single “Blue Around You” in some curiously named spaces upstate: The Chicken Shack and 12 Lb Genius.
Famed “less is more” producer Phil Weinrobe (who famously worked with Big Thief) helped capture the band’s twangy, indie folk rock energy that’s full of sweet pensiveness, and added a few new layers. A fleet of musical friends aided those efforts, creating a genuine and homey appeal.
To capture the song’s true nature, it was recorded live with no playback or headphones, with the feel of the room being as much an instrument as the fiddle that threads the song together. You can find “Blue Around You” out now on Double Double Whammy Records and as part of the playlist on this episode of What’s All This: Adventures in New Music.
Best new indie music this week
- The Healing Power of Horses, “i wait, i sink”
- Porches, “DO THAT”
- Pigeons & Planes Presents: See You Next Year 3, “scratch (ft. Abby Sage & emory)”
- Babehoven, “Blue Around You”
- Shakey Graves, “No Place to Be”
- Alela Diane, “California”
- Pleasure Systems, “When It’s Leaving”
- Nick Hakim, “Real Here Now”
- Baby Rose, “But, Nvm”
- MorMor, “Like Heaven (ft. Celeste)”
- The Avalanches, “Together (ft. Nikki Nair, Jessy Lanza & Prentiss)”
- Genesis Owusu, “BIG DOG”
- Body Type, “Mulberry”
