Baby Boys Share New Single “Desperado” – Debut Album “Threesome” due 12th March via Transgressive

February 25, 2021

BABY BOYS

Share new single “Desperado”

Announce virtual album release show live at The Mall of America on March 25th

Debut album, Threesome due 12th March on Transgressive

Baby Boys—the trio of producers and multi-instrumentalists Caleb Hinz, Jake Luppen, and Nathan Stocker—now they’ve released their new single “Desperado” from their forthcoming debut album, Threesome, out on March 12th via Transgressive.

“This one’s from an old session of Nathan’s that he intended to finish for a different project,” say Baby Boys of the standout track’s inverted, math-y guitar loop that twists and unfurls into glitchy pop bliss. “It’s about having a crush on a friend’s grandmother amidst the luxury of Santa Barbara, California, and trying to charm her by playing The Eagles’ ‘Desperado’ on her living room piano. It tackles the bizarre lengths we go to in order to win a stranger’s favor, despite the possibility of damaging a friendship in the process.”

There’s something so special within this outfit, they dynamically shift their vision, their intensity, and their tone within each of the tracks they’ve previewed so far. With their latest effort, Baby Boys deliver this experimental far-reaching effort that conveys the best melody amongst the abrasive and manipulated sound effects. You need to embrace Desperado over and over again, constantly discovering new tangents, it’s destined to mesmerize.

The Saint Paul, MN-based trio also announced a virtual album release show Live at The Mall of America, a full-length set shot on multiple cameras showcasing Threesome’s cutting edge sonics and Baby Boys’ playful, ‘Don’t let ‘em take your fun’ attitude. The stream, free with RSVP HERE, will go live on March 25th, 2021 at midnight UK time.

On Threesome, Baby Boys’ enduring “yes to everything” mantra yields a snapshot of anarchic studio improvisation distilled into just ten tracks. Recorded at BJ Burton’s (Charli XCX, Bon Iver) Minneapolis studio after Burton left for Los Angeles, the entirety of Threesome came together in one week of 2pm to 6am studio sessions.

The chemistry between the three in the studio has been well-documented outside of the band, too–Hinz, Luppen, and Stocker were the production team behind some of 2020’s most iconic breakout albums, including Samia’s The Baby and Miloe’s Greenhouse EP. But Threesome marked the first time Baby Boys had free reign of a professional studio for their own use, allowing the trio to be fully immersed in assembling its world.

Baby Boys is just the essence, then: a drama-free distillation of ideas. Luppen and Hinz handle nearly all of the programming, while Stocker is the main go-to for the analog instruments (guitars, banjos, and keys), and Hinz then sculpts it all together. They trade vocal duties off the cuff and in the moment; all of them sharing one microphone, typically whoever’s able to spit out a melody idea or vocal part the fastest gets control. The result is genre-bending mischief-pop: an amalgamation of busted-up iPhone memos and nonlinear lyrics colliding with erratic sonic landscapes.