'A commentary on the last four years of my life': BABA on debut record, Truth
The 12-track, featuring production crafted by Enda Gallery who co-wrote the record, is a compelling autobiographical album that explores core themes of female empowerment, love, loss and hope.
'Basically, the album is really just a commentary, kind of on the last four years of my life,' Siobhán Lynch, aka BABA, told the Irish Mirror.
'We had a lot of miscarriages the last few years. I had the process of IVF.
'So there's two songs. There's one for my little boy that I lost in the second trimester of pregnancy. That's Apollo.
'And then very luckily, I had a little girl, so that's Love Like This. That's about her and then there's two songs in the middle which are Lost in Lisbon and Spicy Summer.
'Because the album was starting to sound a little sad, I really wanted to make sure that I kept elements of me in there.
'Spicy Summer is about my favorite thing, which is kissing and the summer time. So I wanted to make sure I kept that in there. And Lost in Lisbon is kind of a reflection on lost loves and things'.
The record is loosely divided into four stages, each reflecting points in Siobhán's journey, with these parts connected by unique interludes.
'Sometimes I think when albums come out, although the songs are personal to the artist, you don't really see all of the background work or the personal touches. So that's why I wanted to put those little bits in.
'Two of them were voice notes. One of them, the one for Apollo, was one that I found on what should have been his second birthday, that I'd recorded.
'And I actually forgot about it, and Enda was like, 'Just go through them', and we nearly didn't put it on, because I just thought, 'Oh, is it too much?'
'It's important. It's very important. For me, talking about pregnancy loss, it's just a really important thing, because when I first started having miscarriages, there was no one to talk to about it.
'So I actually started my own podcast, just to chat through it. So some women had somewhere to go, or people had somewhere to go. Because no one was really talking about it, and it's really lonely.'
While some tracks on the album took just 10 minutes to pen, Apollo took Siobhán nine months to write.
'Apollo took me nine months to write. Some of the songs took 10 minutes,' Siobhán shared.
'We actually started the song, writing the melody of the song before I lost him.
'And then I lost him in the January, and we went back through some of the melodies we'd been writing. I was like, 'Oh, this really sounds like something I could work with'. But just to get the words down on paper, it's very difficult.'
BABA's debut album, Truth, is out now on all streaming platforms.
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