“Here” by Bathe

Bathe, includes singer/songwriter Devin Hobdy and guitarist/producer Corey Smith-West. The Brooklyn duo, recently announced their new album, Inside Voice(s) will drop on March 21st via MNRK Music Group. Along with the news, they have shared single/video, “Here,” in addition to a North American tour supporting Cymande. “It’s about the idea that you might not ever get to the place you want to be, that you might feel that longing for the rest of your life, and that’s as OK as it can be,” says Hobdy. Inside Voice(s) features vocal production from Jake Aron (L’Rain, Snail Mail).

Lead single, “Here,” in Bathe’s words, is a song about “the winter blues.” “We’re based in NYC, and so every year there’s a time where it feels like the sun is already falling right as the day starts. On days like that it can be tempting to just stay in bed and forget about the outside world altogether. Here is a soundtrack for anyone fighting that feeling and finding a way back to their feet.”

Devin Hobdy and Corey Smith-West formed Bathe eight years ago while attending the University of Pennsylvania. Now based in Brooklyn, the pair create music that, on the surface, sounds like a balm for the anxieties of modern life. This flowing sense of ease contributed to their 2021 debut album Bicoastal drawing in more than 30 millions streams. Amid that record’s unhurried grooves, though, were pangs of yearning and desperation that complicated Bathe’s placement in so many chill playlists.

Inside Voice(s) doubles down on this beguiling contrast. “‘Inside Voices’ is our attempt to make sense of the noise around and inside of us,” state Hobdy and Smith-West. “It contains the sounds of the hopes and joys that motivate us, as well as the fears and disappointments that tempt us to stay in bed. Writing this album forced us to sit with and come to terms with these voices, friendly and frightening, inside and out.”

Throughout Inside Voice(s), family members are evoked in tribute and remembrance as they guide Bathe through doubt spiritually and musically. The album’s hushed closing ballad “Bby Boy” finds Hobdy empathizing with his grandma, who passed away last year, with aching lines like, “Your hands are unfamiliar to you/Time moved, your memories forgot about you.” Smith-West also lost a grandmother recently, and she is immortalized via a voicemail that appears on “Hosannas,” a heavenly caress of a song about the inner turmoil that comes with losing your religion. Meanwhile, the legacy of Smith-West’s grandfather, a reggae guitarist, is heard through his grandson’s playing and production, while the influence of Hobdy’s mother, who studied jazz and took her son along with her to nightclub gigs in his youth, is felt in his searching vocal lines and pillowy harmonies.

Bathe
Inside Voice(s)
Tracklisting
MNRK

1. Badada
2. Avalon
3. Furloughed
4. Bad News
5. Fields
6. Pieces
7. Capsize
8. Hosannas
9. Heaven
10. Here
11. Bby Boy

Bathe 2025 Live Dates

Thu. Feb. 13 – New York, NY @ Irving Plaza *
Fri. Feb. 14 – Philadelphia, PA @ Ardmore Music Hall *
Sat. Feb. 15 – Washington, DC @ Howard Theatre *
Tue. Feb. 18 – Chicago, IL @ Metro *
Wed. Feb. 19 – Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity Theatre *
Fri. Feb. 21 – Denver, CO @ Bluebird *
Sat. Feb. 22 – Seattle, WA @ Crocodile *
Sun. Feb. 23 – Portland, OR @ Aladdin Theater *
Wed. Feb. 26 – San Francisco, CA @ August Hall *
Fri. Feb. 28 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Bellwether *

* = w/ Cymande

Pre-order Inside Voice(s) HERE

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