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BABY VELVET
shares new single & clip
‘BAD WITH MONEY’
WATCH THE CLIP HERE
The Debut Album
PLEASE DON’T BE IN LOVE
WITH SOMEONE ELSE
Out Today
via ABC MUSIC
LISTEN TO ALBUM HERE
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“The song’s edges are slightly sharper than those of Crofts band All Our Exes Live In Texas, but her vocals are as pleasing here as they’ve ever been, and its vintage sound is a nice fit for her.” – DOUBLE J
“a rollicking, rhinestone-bedazzled country gem, delivered with Crofts’ distinctive croon and underscored by soaring harmonies” – MUSIC FEEDS
“a track that is so vibrant, yet patently honest” – AU REVIEW
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After teasing fans with her introspective lyricism and punchy guitar lines on previous singles ‘Call Me’, ‘Atlanta’, and ‘What The Hell Is Wrong With Me’, Melbourne artist Baby Velvet has today shared her much-anticipated debut album Please Don’t Be In Love With Someone Else out via ABC Music.
To coincide with the release, Hannah has delivered yet another visually delicious clip for new single ‘Bad With Money’, created by Juliet Rowe and photo content provided by Izzie Austin and Ian Laidlaw.
Reflecting on the single, Hannah says “This is one of my favourite tracks on the album. I have been a musician for 15 years now and honestly, every single month my bank account sits back at zero waiting for my next paycheck to roll in. I throw every single dollar I have into two things: Music & Vintage Dresses. I like to think this is a real road trip song, especially the dreamy expansive bridge, where you are driving, windows down, you have just burnt your old life down and you are driving into the sunset.”
Produced by LA legend Kevin Ratterman and Melbourne royalty James Gilligan, Please Don’t Be In Love With Someone Else delves in to the complexities of love, life, and adulthood across its 10 tracks. Baby Velvet looks inward as she reflects on heartbreak and making the same mistakes, self-doubt, and the darker realities of being a touring musician.
It features songs like ‘What The Hell Is Wrong With Me’ and ‘Normal People’ with reflections on heartbreak and repeating the same mistakes. The album reaches the zenith of self-doubt with ‘Best in Show’, a song about the darker realities of being a touring musician. Lines like ‘room service and hotel rooms are all I have to offer you’ are reminiscent of Charley Pride’s classic, All I have to offer you (is me).
An activist and musician, Crofts feels the world sparkle around her. Baby Velvet’s soaring harmonies and aching lyrics are gloriously gritty and heart-wrenching but always familiar with hard-won reflections on the artist’s life.
As one quarter of the indie folk group, All Our Exes Live in Texas, Crofts has toured the world in vintage gowns and rhinestone boots. The band’s debut When We Fall reached #6 on the ARIA charts, won an ARIA for Best Blues and Roots Album along with the band supporting the Backstreet Boys, singing on Kesha’s Grammy Nominated Album, and travelling across the USA with Midnight Oil.
Like scorpions who distinguish between light and dark to navigate by moonlight, Baby Velvet negotiates the low light of self-doubt with an innate sense of purpose. This is strident power pop that saturates and sparkles while sinking sharp teeth into the patriarchy. There is no turning back.
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PLEASE DON’T BE IN LOVE
WITH SOMEONE ELSE
East Coast Shows
JULY 21 | THE VANGUARD, SYDNEY / EORA
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JULY 23 | FRANKS WILD YEARS, THIRROUL / DHARAWAL LAND
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AUGUST 4 | NORTHCOTE SOCIAL CLUB, MELBOURNE / NAARM
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AUGUST 6 | THE BRIDGE, CASTELAMINE / DJA DJA WURRUNG LAND
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AUGUST 12 | LIGHTHOUSE ARTS COLLECTIVE, POINT LONSDALE / WATHAURONG LAND
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LISTEN TO ALBUM HERE
PLEASE DON’T BE IN LOVE
WITH SOMEONE ELSE
Track Listing
There’s No Crying At The Baseball
Love Letter
Atlanta
Call Me
Bad With Money
What The Hell Is Wrong With Me
Best In Show
Benjamin Caldwell
Silver Vision
Normal People
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