Nashville’s Baby Wave sign to Saddle Creek and drop new single ‘The Scene Is Changing’ alongside an official music video shot at DIY spot Ryman 2, featuring local bands Impediment, McKay, Sabby, Soot, Superhero, Total Wife, and Venus and the Flytraps.
Composed of multi-instrumentalists book NOT brooke, Gardner Gottsegen, and Jakob Bibb, Baby Wave blend slowcore, slacker rock, emo and shoegaze. ‘The Scene Is Changing’ is a love letter and reflection on the ever-changing East Nashville DIY scene.
book NOT brooke shares:
“You can spend your entire life on the outside, feeling like you’ll never belong, and even if you do find “the scene” for a moment in time, you can spend the rest of your life jaded or living in the past. Every scene is destined to bloom and fizzle. I think it matters to honor that cycle for what it is. When we wrote this song, it felt like a character study, but now it rings truer than ever, and it makes me emotional every time. It feels like an ode to the ever-changing Nashville DIY scene.”
Gardner Gottsegen adds:
“This is one of those songs whose meaning keeps shifting. I used to think it was about me, now I’m pretty sure it’s about everyone else.”
The accompanying DIY video was filmed at Ryman 2 and features local bands Impediment, McKay, Sabby, Soot, Superhero, Total Wife, and Venus and the Flytraps.
Live dates
OCTOBER
6 – El Paso, TX – Lowbrow Palace †
14 – Chicago, IL – Schubas #
16 – Toronto, ON, Canada – Monarch Tavern #
17 – Montreal, QC, Canada – Toscadura #
21 – Brooklyn, NY – Union Pool #
22 – Brooklyn, NY – Baby’s All Right #
23 – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s #
24 – Washington, DC – Songbyrd Music House #
† – w/ Fcukers
# – w/ Swapmeet
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