Shybaby

Brooklyn's Shybaby is permission to be ridiculous. It is a prying necessity to be loud and alive and felt. It’s trying and failing to love, and it's hopelessly in love. It is very much in the moment, unthought. It’s finding the fun in being unapologetically sad and dramatic – to feel your animal feelings so loud & out loud.

Is This Intimate is graciously unpretentious in its deliberate embrace of the depth to be found in unbridled absurdity.

Songwriter, guitarist, and frontperson (in essence, Shybaby) Grace Eire says, “To be able to be this person, I feel as though I’ve crawled into my real skin suit. It’s so easy to perform when it feels so real and raw and myself. Most of these songs are the first idea, unedited, writing-wise. The simpler the better, the louder the better. It’s very much a gut feeling – possibly the truest version of Grace.”

Shybaby already sounds so different in 2022, with the lineup shifting since these songs were written & recorded in 2016-2019. Tess Moreland, who performs “Roebling”, “Huevo Sin Sal”, and “O Baby” on the record, decided to move on, but was happy to have her songs included as they’re very much a part of what and how Shybaby was in that moment in time. All of the songs were recorded live across two sessions at City College in West Harlem, where current bassist Ben Hansen attended school at the time. Drummer Charlie McGrath has since moved to Los Angeles and now plays with Siiickbrain (in MGK & Willow Smith’s crew). The sounds on the stems bleed into one another & are alive with the volume from those days way up at the top of Manhattan.

Is This Intimate was mixed and mastered by Joe Rogers (work with Moby, Joanna Sternberg, Laura Stevenson), and finally printed from a house in the Catskills on 7/23/21 under the full moon in Aquarius. When Shybaby plays live, it's Grace Eire, Jake Pflum (of Native Sun), Ben Hansen, and a rotating line of drummers which has included Max Bassin (of Geese). Shybaby has received praise from DIY, Audiofemme, Alt Citizen, and more, and has been compared to The Ramones, Karen O, and Debbie Harry for their “manic ferocity” (DIY). Shybaby wants you to have a good fkin time.

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