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Ray Sonder and Saxon Gable grew up in sleepy beach towns on Australia’s east coast. Their parents were hippies and rockers. They were spoon-fed Nirvana and The Beatles on the car radio whether they liked it or not. Both began writing songs from an early age, evoking the rolling foothills, wild flotillas, and the waters of Byron Bay that were their back yards. By university, they were writing hazy, sunkissed demos to share with friends as they spent their days slacking off in the pacific ocean. Inspired by technicolor, small-town beatniks and surfers, and the romantic soundtracks of their early youth, the foundations of Baby Smith were laid a long time ago. But neither Saxon nor Ray knew each other yet, despite likely crossing paths. The pair moved to Berlin separately within a week of each other to explore new subcultures, and write songs. They met, and soon married, spiritually united by their affection for the whimsical, intimate, deeply melodic sounds of 1960s psychedelia and 1990s Grunge. What followed was musical exploration and experimentation that led to the genesis of Baby Smith in 2023. Their debut album Lately, Love Is Dead is a whimsical collection of hypnotic odes to the fall of romance in an ever polarising world. In a world saturated with noise, Baby Smith plunge us into a raw, forever expanding galaxy of love, and its demise.
