Baybs


Baybs is the music project of San Francisco musician and songwriter Craig Jacobs. With songs created as a way to cope with an anxiety-ridden past, Baybs' music itself delivers a more optimistic posture while still remaining chillingly intimate and impassioned. Jacobs  recalls, "There were periods of my life where I didn't want to leave my house.. soon I couldn't leave my room.. then I didn't even feel safe in my own body. The times I felt like literally jumping out of my skin the only thing that helped was picking up a guitar and creating a melody."

The resulting sound is an ebb and flow of dreamy folk pop with a flirtatious rhythmic pulse. To create an atmosphere of multilayered vocal texture, Jacobs collaborates with singers Melissa Russi and Chloe Zelma Studebaker (Zelma Stone), live and in the studio. In the summer of 2019 two debut singles, “Heartbeats (Amor Fati)” and “You’re the Only One” were released. After several months of playing live shows at local venues including Rickshaw Stop, Bottom Of The Hill and Amnesia, Jacobs teamed up with producer Timothy Vickers aka GrandBankss (who also plays bass in Baybs) to record the a debut EP "Intovertigo." This five track album is a true testament to the constant turbulence and distress caused by social anxiety as well as the general feeling of chronic alienThis five track album is a true testament to the constant turbulence and distress caused by social anxiety as well as the general feeling of chronic alienation from ones immediate surroundings. Despite the intensity of the lyrics, in normal Baybs fashion, the music itself is upbeat, flowy and meant to make the listener physically feel good.


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