TORONTO INDIE POP DUO SHARE ANOTHER GLIMPSE OF NEW MUSIC
BUY / STREAM “YOU DON’T NEED A REASON TO CALL” HERE
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Today, Babygirl, the Toronto and Los Angeles-based duo of Kiki Frances and Cameron Bright, are sharing another new single, “You Don’t Need A Reason To Call”. A wistful dedication to unconditional companionship, with Frances’s sweet vocals underscored by lightly frayed guitar, “You Don’t Need A Reason To Call” is a song that “honours the hours-long phone call, and the person that you can call at any time for any reason, even if there’s no reason at all,” says the band. “There’s a certain rare intimacy between people that reach out to one another without cause, just to pass the time together. How nice it is that we can keep each other company even when we aren’t in the same room or city or country - it still feels like something to marvel at.”
BUY / STREAM “YOU DON’T NEED A REASON TO CALL” HERE
Babygirl have a penchant for vivid imagery in their singular music, a wistful take on bittersweet pop rock that heedlessly transports into the soundtrack of a teen drama from the early aughts. Following the recent singles "Take Me Back" and "After You", Babygirl further enlivens their effervescent definition of pop music with "You Don't Need A Reason To Call".
MORE ABOUT BABYGIRL
Babygirl met while enrolled in a jazz program at Toronto’s Humber College and bonded over a shared love of Katy Perry, The Beach Boys, and the art of a good pop song. They were kindred pop spirits, as though fated to be a songwriting team. A pair of pop music philosophers, the two connected over dissecting the math of Max Martin and Swedish-penned Top 40 hits. “It was nice to find someone else there that was super passionate about pop music and took it seriously in the same way,” they say.
Celebrated for their three EPs, Be Still My Heart (2023), Losers Weepers (2021) and Lovers Fevers (2018) – which have amassed over 50 million streams and earned glowing praise from platforms like Noisey, Rolling Stone, PAPER, and NYLON, Babygirl now stand poised with their best music to date.
WATCH / SHARE “AFTER YOU” HERE
BUY / STREAM “AFTER YOU” HERE
WATCH / SHARE “TAKE ME BACK” HERE
BUY / STREAM “TAKE ME BACK” HERE
PAST PRAISE FOR BABYGIRL
“The chorus soars out from the shadows of nostalgia of melancholic recollections of moments with someone who redefined what love can be and into the bright burst of luminosity that saturates the single's accompanying artwork, with open chords and twinkling synths swirling like dust in a sunbeam: "Caught me in your headlights, I forgot to move." Exclaim! on "After You"
“While their nostalgic sound recalls the warm malaise of ’90s alternative rock, the band’s lyrics strike a contemporary chord, blending sad, solitary images with moments of crystalline clarity and emotional weight.” CONSEQUENCE
"Bandmates Kiki Frances and Cameron Bright layer on the melancholic yearning, jangling guitars, and haze ‘90s vibes, hitting on a deft balance of earnest pop melody and indie rock malaise.” Under The Radar
“Downright dreamy music” Rolling Stone
