You can hear the impact of this approach in Baby Rose's second album, Through and Through. Take the hypnotic "Fight Club." Over the track's simmering baseline and crashing cymbals, she declares, "I don't need no one else to show me the way." She describes the song as a "breaking of the shell. It encourages me to just go for it and not care about what anyone else thinks." Therein lies Baby Rose's strength: a determination to live, love, and create on her own terms.
Tracklist:
1 Go
2 Fight Club
3 Dance with Me
4 Paranoid
5 I Won't Tell
6 Love Bomb
7 Tell Me It's Real
8 Nightcap
9 Stop the Bleeding
10 Water
11 Power
"I'm not just a singer with a unique voice," she says. "I'm somebody that has something to say." In the years since releasing her last album, To Myself, Rose has been painstakingly piecing together it's sequel. Started almost immediately after it's release, her new body of work finds her in a state of musical and personal transition. It's a subtle merging of new sounds-stirring rock, upbeat r&b, psychedelic funk, pop, and soulful ballads-, all mastered through analog tape to make the music feel warmer and all-encompassing. It's also a journey inward as she battles past fear and self-doubt to finally discover-and love-who she is, where she is. Finishing an album with such peace and firm resolution is a first for Rose, but she makes it clear: She's nowhere near done writing her story. "I think as long as I'm being raw and trying to push past my comfort zone, it will feel rewarding," she says. "I don't want to be the type that doesn't take risks because I'm afraid. I have to trust that as long as the music is honest and innovative, it'll be timeless."
