Premiere: Babbling April display millennial angst in new video, ‘Worst Kinds of Parties’
The lo-fi indie rock band come to terms with growing up in the modern age.
There’s always a turning point in your 20s when those messy, too-drunk-to-see parties don’t do it for you anymore. It comes with adulthood, like real adulthood, when immature recklessness and assorted behaviors become terribly unhealthy. That just means you’re ready for what’s next. Indie-rock four-piece Babbling April mull over their awakening, peeling back the layers of what was to reveal what is, on their new song. With “Worst Kinds of Parties,” accompanied with a serene, black and white visual, premiering today, they aim to accept the truth of the matter. “Just yesterday was a new decade / But now that tape runs faded and blurry,” observes Vivienne Machi with a solemn head nod. “Oh, the afternoons we wasted in a hurry / And somehow, it seems no one has aged.”
The drum kit throbs as a funeral march, almost insurmountably heavy, yet the lightness they uncover soon soothes them back into bliss. “The decorative lights are turned dim / The riveting talks have grown thin / And your charming smile seems more now like a shit-eating grin,” she continues to unravel inescapable melancholy. Guitars bat at her vocal cords, and the visual plays with time, as they meander through a reel that is cracked, muted, and fraying at the edges. “But still I am here / Feeling older than my age,” she then admits.
Alongside band members Dave New and Ben Melrod, the Washington, DC confront growing up, a threshold over which we all must cross. It’s surely a hard pill to swallow, but once its down, things do get better. “There came a time in our late-20s where we realized that the parties we were going to just weren’t fun anymore,” they offer to B-Sides & Badlands email. “It seems to be a collective feeling across an age group on the cusp of adulthood who didn’t realize when it happened right under our noses.”
Babbling April’s “Worst Kinds of Parties” anchors their forthcoming new album, Days of Retreat (now up for pre-order), out everywhere June 5. To-date, the band has issued two EPs, including 2018’s Holy Gold.
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