"I'm sorry I was the best girlfriend you ever had"
Baby Bulldog is the musical project / moniker of Steph Barker (based in L.A. by way of New Hampshire) and the track Lonely from her upcoming EP "Rodney" is a jammy big slice of post punk / anti-pop with a dense sound all provided by Barker herself. As a drummer (Coast Modern / Kate Nash), singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who brings queer issues, relationship and otherwise to the forefront. Of Lonely she offers:
"This song is about a huge fear of mine. A fear that I’ve experienced on both sides. Being the lonely lover, and being the one hopelessly in love. It’s every high and low, topped with a drum solo."
“Baby Bulldog is who I am - a masculine butch
person making music, writing about women.” - Steph Barker
I really love the potent sound, the proto punk tones, the vocal aesthetic with shout-a-bout backing vox.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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I have no idea what I'm doing, but it feels good!
Known for playing the drums behind Coast Modern and Kate Nash, Steph Barker has stepped out to make her solo debut as Baby Bulldog.
Baby Bulldog (aka Steph Barker) is a one-woman project from LA via New Hampshire.
All performed by Baby herself from behind her drum kit, the tracks are queer love stories told with the everyday lyricism of Courtney Barnett and the scuzzed out pop hooks of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
In bringing queer narratives to the front, Baby is part of a seismic shift in the pop paradigm. Like contemporary artists Julien Baker and Pronoun, Baby Bulldog feels absolutely no reason to add to rock and pop’s unhealthy overload of hetero-normative stories and writes autobiographical tracks about female protagonists without thinking twice.
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