Baby Rose & BADBADNOTGOOD - Slow Burn (Clear Smoke Vinyl 12")

Format:  Clear Smoke Vinyl 12"
Cat No:  SC490LP-C1

Less than a year after her album ‘Through and Through’, Baby Rose returns with
‘Slow Burn’, a collection of songs that explode her sonic palette from progressive
R&B into a rawer, richer and more sprawling lens of American music.

Here, Rose asserts herself as not only a once-in-ten lifetimes vocalist, but as a
formidable songwriter connecting the dots where Muscle Shoals meets psych, psych
meets jazz, jazz meets Americana, and the right players bring it all together.

Produced by BADBADNOTGOOD, Rose and the band found an instant but
seemingly endless well of inspiration; what started as an introduction became a day,
became a song, became a night, became ‘Slow Burn’.

When Rose first met with BADBADNOTGOOD, the idea was to say hello, get acquainted, see what a collaboration could, over time, potentially become. The connection was instant, however, and together they put down lead single ‘One Last Dance’ in just that first meeting. It was Rose’s first freestyle vocal, and it snapped crucial pieces of her vision into focus. “I’ve known deep down there were new spaces and sounds that I could rise to,” Rose explains. “I’ve always been into different sounds that bring in those rawer textures.”

And so, while the speed of their collaboration thrilled and surprised Rose, the
potential and the end results did not. “We moved quickly,” she says, “and it really was
a faucet. Once we got ‘One Last Dance’, it became clear everything was going to
flow.”

The songs on ‘Slow Burn’ were inspired in part by Rose’s experiences driving
between her family’s home bases: the noise and chaos of DC and the quiet Carolina
countryside. Rose would crank music and let her mind drift, making room for the
internal monologues and imagined dialogues you might not otherwise dare to hear.
There’s a dreaminess in those moments, and they smoulder on ‘Slow Burn’:
memories lose their realities, feelings replace happenings. ‘Slow Burn’’s title track, for
example, sets soft, ambling drums against Rose’s lyrical repetitions, as she traces
those recollections - some lives, some felt - with patient, insistent desire.

The standout ‘One Last Dance’ arrives disguised as a love song, but is actually an
ode to a lost friendship, and an imagined dream of one more day like the old days.
Reality blurs with feeling again, vocals layer into lullaby, and BADBADNOTGOOD’s
bassist Chester Hansen brings that dreamlike quality to a sneaky, cautious but loving
undertone. In fact, most of the songs on ‘Slow Burn’ have that stealthy, shadowed
feel, like they’re arriving on tiptoe: intimate but a little dangerous, tender but a little
mysterious.

TRACKLISTING:

On My Mind
Slow Burn
Caroline feat. Mereba
Weekness
It’s Alright
One Last Dance