Pacific Northwest outfit Babes In Canyon produces an overwhelming atmospheric folk sound that mixes the vitality of Andrew Bird with the pop spectrum of Mt. Joy on their new EP Year To Live. As one of the founding members of the band Kuinka, frontman Nathan Hamer honed his skills as a singer-songwriter for several years as the band evolved from folk to alternative rock. Soon featured performances at dozens of festivals, NPR “Tiny Desk” and Paste sessions, and several successful national headlining tours followed.
Hamer’s passion for folk had not abated, and he sought an outlet wherein he could continue to blend his folk influences with mainstream pop sensibilities. Discovery, evolution, and expression have always been the core purpose of Babes In Canyon. Their final form is to continually follow the muse, and at the moment that muse has led them to wander naturally into the land of heavy beats, lyrics with an element of storytelling, and folk instrumentation with a twist.
Glide is premiering the video for the vivacious new track “North” (below) which showcases the trio honing their mastercraft with lofty visuals that transform their six strings into powerful voices of their own.
“The visuals for ‘North’ came to me in a dream,” says Hamer. “We had just finished mixing and mastering the track, so I had been listening quite intensely and repetitively to the song for a week or so. One night I was struck with this eerie imagery of the band sitting atop antique furniture towers high over the desert, an analog TV somewhere in the mix displaying visuals that paralleled the words of the song. Amanda and I run a boutique production company in our spare time, so I woke up and said ‘I have this idea, and I think we can pull it off’. The next day we got to work on crafting the magic to bring the ‘North’ video to life.”
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Marvelous creative song, visual and instrumental music!