We chat with Maya Bon of the band Babehoven about their excellent new album, 'Water's Here In You', taking the songs on the road and some of the music she's been listening to lately.
Babehoven play Montreal's La Sotterenea on May 10.
Written and recorded at 12 Lb Genius, the duo’s home studio, throughout the winter of 2022-2023, Water’s Here In You comes close on the heels of the band’s debut album Light Moving Time, which followed an impressively prolific canon of shorter releases dating back to 2017 when Bon founded the project in college. This latest album continues the thread of the band’s sonic DNA-blending hyper-melodic indie and folk rock with shades of shoegaze and the occasional nod toward country-but what sets it apart is the nature of the collaboration at its core.
For the first time, Albert-who has operated as instrumentalist, producer, and engineer on past releases-joins forces with Bon as a songwriter, lending new depths to their musical partnership. It’s a fruitful collaboration that has led the duo to new and surprising chord choices and song structures, resulting in a collection of their biggest-sounding material to date. The songs unfold like fractals-often cyclical and spiraling outward from the center-with Bon’s lyrics and melodies cresting and compounding over Albert’s harmonic bedrock.
27 авг 2024
