Sweet Baboo Wild Imagination Artwork
Recently announced is the new album from Sweet Baboo, aka. North Wales’ musician, Stephen Black, on Friday 2nd June 2017 on Moshi Moshi. “When you feel the need for space, run away from place to place,” he sings, offering an irresistible invitation: “Here’s two train tickets, let’s go!” After the Harry Nilsson-esque love songs of 2015’s The Boombox Ballads, Black embarks on a new mission on Wild Imagination: to find the perfect pick-me-up antidote to the winter of our discontent.
The result is a bright, wry, melodically buoyant and sweetly melancholy tonic from the North Wales (born in Trefriw, near Snowdonia; now Cardiff-based) singer: a tribute to the joys of travel and the warming return home alike. Previously, Black’s co-travelling collaborators have included Carmarthenshire’s Cate Le Bon. But his sweet sentiments and winning melodies have been constant companions for all open-hearted listeners since 2003. And they prove so once more on Wild Imagination, with impeccable timing. With a tour in June – listen to new single ‘Badminton’ below’.
Wild Imagination tracklisting:
1. The Gardener
2. Wild Imagination
3. Swallows
4. Badminton
5. Clear Blue Skies
6. The Night Gardener
7. Hold On
8. Pink Rainbow
9. Humberside
10. Californ-i-a
SWEET BABOO JUNE 2017 UK TOUR DATES
Tue 13th – Ramsgate Music Hall, Ramsgate
Wed 14th – The Prince Albert, Brighton
Thur 15th – The Lexington, London
Fri 16th – Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff
Sat 17th – Thekla, Bristol
Sun 18th – Soup Kitchen, Manchester
Tickets on sale now via sweetbaboo.co.uk.
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