Electronic Pop from BAIBA

Over the last few years, Innsbruck-based Latvian artist BAIBA has been making an impact in the electronic pop world with a sound that embraces contradiction; equal parts shadow and shine. Known for her ability to confront emotional themes while delivering beats that pull you to the dancefloor, she’s been developing steadily since her debut in 2017.

Originally based in a more melancholic singer-songwriter tradition, BAIBA has since leaned into a thrilling electronic direction, crafting tracks that shimmer with ambient flourishes and shake with deep, textured basslines. First unveiling her original sound in 2017 with her debut single “Running,” singles two and three quickly followed before her first full-length record, These Storms, landed later that year. Since then, she’s continued to impress with multiple singles, a sophomore album and an EP.

Now, BAIBA returns with her brand new single titled “Stalker,” the second single lifted from her forthcoming concept album DELUSIONAL. With this release, she steps fully into the grey space between victimhood and obsession, wielding satire and discomfort as tools to tell a story that’s rarely explored so openly in pop music.

Penned from the viewpoint of a woman consumed by obsession for someone already in a relationship, “Stalker” dismantles the familiar heartbreak situation, framing a tangle of desire and delusion wrapped in a synth pop package. Drawing inspiration from the Netflix series Baby Reindeer, BAIBA channels that same unsettling intensity, holding up a mirror to our darkest impulses and asking what happens when we stop pretending they don’t exist.

Commenting on the single, she shares, “Most of us like to believe we’re the ‘good ones,’ but we all do questionable things sometimes. We lie, obsess, betray, and in this song, I wanted to explore that twisted part of ourselves with honesty, humour, and a good beat.”

Co-written and produced with Moritz Kristmann in a garden shed in Innsbruck, its bright synth lines and buoyant beat sit in stark contrast to its lyrical content. Opened by BAIBA’s filtered vocalisations and stab of warm bass synth tones, her soulful vocal leads glide in to spin elegant melodic leads carrying picture painting lyricism, forming an infectious sound that swells with the uptempo patter of drums and layers of colourful synth lines.

Flowing with danceable energy and cut with instantly catchy melodic hooks, “Stalker” serves up a memorable and exhilarating electronic pop experience that wraps a sobering context in a bright and playful soundscape. With DELUSIONAL shaping up to be a concept album that explores the blurry moral lines we so often avoid, “Stalker” sets an intriguing precedent and we can’t wait to see what this talented artist has in store next.

Listen to Stalker below

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