Babehoven

Babehoven, the project of Maya Bon, a singer-songwriter based first in Oregon then Los Angeles, in collaboration with producer Ryan Albert, debuted with two EPs of introspective bedroom-pop: the five-song Sleep (2018), with Sleep in the vein of the melancholy teen-idol tunes of the early 1960s but also the six-minute dirge LA, and the four-song Solemnis (2019), with the upbeat Lena. In 2019 they left Los Angeles for Vermont, where they recorded the five-song Demonstrating Visible Difference of Height (2020), containing the whispered lament Only So and the dreamy and droning Close Behind. They moved to Philadelphia and released the three-song Yellow has a pretty good reputation (2021), with the funereal Dissociative Tally, and the seven-song Nastavi Calliope (2021), a concept on grief containing Bad Week, Orange Tree, and the transfixed A Star. Back in Vermont, they crafted the six-song EP Sunk EP (2022), ostensibly inspired by Elliott Smith’s Either/Or, with the feeble Fugazi and the dreamy and tinkling seven-minute Twenty Dried Chilies. The album Light Moving Time (Double Double Whammy, 2022) contains the graceful and country-ish Break the Ice, the rousing I'm On Your Team, and the stately Often.