Steady Holiday

Steady Holiday, the brainchild of Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Andrea Babinski, debuted with singles such as Your Version Of Me (2015), an old-fashioned aria that evokes French singers of the 1960s, and Open Water (2016), a whispered lullaby hugged by mellotronic strings and shaken by melodramatic guitar riffs. Under The Influence (2016), produced by Gus Seyffert, retained the naive feeling of her singing and the romantic feeling of the "symphonic" arrangements (actually, mellotron). The combination harks back to the pop songs of the pre-rock era (So Long evokes Francoise Hardy's Tous Les Garcons), or proposes an odd form of orchestral bedroom-pop (When I See Color). At times it sounds like slightly psychedelic dream-pop (Superstar) and at times like a marriage of slocore and country music (New Heaven).

Nobody's Watching (2018) moved away from that nostalgic style towards a more earthly rock sound.

The garage-rockers Living Life and especially Tangerine are the most lively songs off her generally mediocre third album, Take the Corners Gently (2021). Candles recaptures the angelic dimension of the first album, and White Walls would be even better without the annoyingly loud and fast beat. The orchestral arrangements are dropped for the acoustic closer, Love me When I go to Sleep, and here one can admire Babinski's talent, a talent so far unrealized.