Indie Folk from The Baker’s Basement

Hailing from Cleveland, Ohio, The Baker’s Basement is an alternative folk duo making progressive music with the ethos that anything can produce sound, and any sound can be made musical. With that notion at the core of their artistic vision, they’ve found success with their unique sonic offering and unorthodox approach to instruments and percussion.

Starting out in 2012 after meeting the year before in Chillicothe; basements, busking and a bucket – when flipped upside down and rendered rhythmic – provided their main creative ingredients, stoking a fiercely inventive mindset through which they brought to fruition their musical ideas.

Soon they had developed a homemade percussion apparatus called the ‘Tempeh Kit’, an innovative concoction of paint buckets and conventional drum pieces that’s now designed for drummer Kate Dedinsky to play while standing upright, allowing her to move and groove alongside guitarist Adam Grindler on stage.

With their studio music, they made their introduction in 2014 with their debut record Island which they’ve since followed up with a string of stellar releases including three further full-length albums. Binging us the final single and title track of their latest LP Wild Wild Sheep, they share the track “Wild Wild Sheep”, a song written about the sheep counted when falling asleep, and where they end up when they’re no longer being clocked.

Following the animals on their fantastical voyage to dreamt up realms of unexplored worlds, The Baker’s Basement spin a wild sonic journey of vivid musical imagery. Opened with a sparse and alluring arrangement to reflect the slip into soporific state, the duo then builds the song into a wild folktronica trip as they weave through a dreamy adventure on a single that shows their highly original songwriting and talent as musicians.

Listen to Wild Wild Sheep below