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Photo Credit: Ian Durkin

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Today, Goth Babe has announced his inaugural Australian tour set to take place in October-November 2024. Across four enchanting evenings, Goth Babe will take the stage at an array of Australia’s most iconic venues including Enmore Theatre in Sydney, The Forum in Melbourne, The Tivoli in Brisbane and The Rechabite in Perth, bringing with him his shimmering discography which offers a sonic respite from the heaviness of the world. To coincide with the news, Goth Babe’s debut album Lola is out tomorrow, a sonic homage to the namesake sailboat on which he now lives, and a splendid confirmation of Goth Babe’s story so far.

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Since his breakthrough single ‘Sometimes’ in 2018, Goth Babe (née Griff Washburn) has balanced his skyrocketing profile as a musician by staying grounded and living a scaled-back lifestyle that allows him to pursue his love of the outdoors and the environment. Having spent time living in his car, a tiny house, and a camper van, all-inclusive of moments of joy and unfettered freedom as well as loneliness and trauma, Lola is ripe with shimmering sounds and topsy-turvy life dynamics, meticulously coiled into 11 incredible tracks that look for respite and redemption.

In tandem with the album, Goth Babe has released the album’s accompanying short film “Lola” — watch it HERE. Griff’s story is special and the “Lola” documentary puts his success story as a musician, with over 900 million streams and countless sold-out shows, into context. Living in small spaces (and recording music in those spaces) has helped Griff pare his life down — making room for the important things in his life: travel, adventure, music, and most importantly,  fun.

Directed by Ian Durkin, the short film follows the making of his new album and offers an inside look into the artist behind Goth Babe (where you can also get to know his perpetual sidekick, his blue-eyed Australian Shepherd named Sadie).

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GOTH BABE
Australian Tour Dates 2024

Presented by Handsome Tours

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LOLA OUT FNOW VIA MOM + POP MUSIC 
BUY HERE

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LOLA
Track Listing

Neon Trees
Spinnaker Days
Sadie
Backwards
Sun Comes Up
Orcas
Insides
Bioluminescence 
Crocodile
Alone In The Mountains
Baja

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About GOTH BABE

Five years have passed since Griff released the breakthrough ‘Sometimes’, a gentle and wining shuffle about the eddy of confusion that comes with love and life itself. Now 26, Griff has, somewhat unwittingly, built a massive following with a subsequent string of two dozen charmers about living on the road, edging toward contentment, and trying to define home as part of a historically unmoored generation. He has headlined Red Rocks and LA’s Greek Theater, played Electric Forest and Austin City Limits, and has amassed a zealous audience online, with some of the songs he wrote in his most trying moments racing past the 100-million stream threshold. But none of that is actually the point as much as a side effect of the unconventional life he’s managed to make and that continues to shape the songs of Lola. “It would be terrifying for my entire identity to be my band, because so much ego is wrapped up in that,” he says of the rightful conviction that we are more than jobs. “That seems like a cycle of always trying to be someone you’re not to impress other people. I don’t just want to be Goth Babe. I want to be Griff, to not have all my eggs in one basket.”

That course hasn’t always been smooth or easy, but it has rippled with inspiration and renewal. Griff moved to Oregon, living in his camper until the damp Pacific Northwest did a number on its Mojave-acclimated interior. He then found a half-finished tiny house in Seattle, relocated it and revamped the structure himself, shaping a home that offered stability and comfort but also allowed him to travel. In fact, he was on a surfing trip when he slammed his head into the shoreline, causing a severe concussion that he is still dealing with more than 18 months later. And then, well, the house burned down, prompting him to bail temporarily on landlubbing altogether. So Griff bought Lola, his sailboat, and again turned to YouTube to learn how to operate it. These days, he, Sadie, and his little mobile recording studio split their time between a modest house on the Oregon coast and, when the season is right, Lola on the ocean. Griff naturally hopes that people like this new Goth Babe material. Maybe they find a few minutes of respite from hustle culture during ‘Alone in the Mountains’ or a moment of sheer wonder in ‘Sun Comes Up’, Those feelings, after all, are the reason he makes music for himself and anyone who needs it, not the vaulting ambition of careerism. “There’s so much beauty in the world, obviously balanced by a lot of pain and suffering,” says Griff, who has endured the latter to experience and then offer the former. “I would love if these songs allowed people, even just for a second, to escape the weight and heaviness of the world.”

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AMNPLIFY – ML