Grace Cuell writes songs as a way of making sense of the world around her. On Infinity Baby, her second album as Baby Cool, she takes a gentle look at what it means to be human as the pendulum swings between shadow and light. Where her debut Earthling on the Road to Self Love felt almost whimsical in its search for meaning, Infinity Baby is more grounded and honest. The songs move through desire, cynicism, devotion and surrender, sometimes defeat, but always circle back to a kind of hope. It’s a record about patterns: the ones we inherit, the ones we repeat, and the ones we choose to keep. Working alongside producer Samuel Joseph who has worked with the likes of King Gizzard, Family Jordan and more, the album was made in the hills of the Northern Rivers. Musically, Baby Cool continues to blur psychedelia, folk and kraut-pop, with the spaciousness of her natural surroundings ever-present in the songwriting and production. On “Mirage,” hope flickers against a world that feels broken. “Loop” sits with the strange repetition of daily life, walking the same road and expecting something to shift. “Everything” captures the exhaustion of trying to squeeze meaning from every moment, while “Devotion” unpacks the way we fall in love with ideas that exist mostly in our own minds. “Sacred” steps away from romantic love and lands somewhere steadier, friendship as the deepest, most enduring form of connection. And at the heart of the record is “Infinity Baby,” a song rooted in a childhood fear of endlessness. Instead of resisting that fear, Cuell writes through it. The song feels like a small act of soothing for her younger self, and maybe for anyone else who has ever felt overwhelmed by the scale of it all. Infinity Baby doesn’t offer answers. It sits in the spin of things. And somewhere in that spin, it finds a quiet kind of acceptance.
TRACK LISTING
1. Intro
2. Mirage
3. Loop
4. Sky
5. Desert
6. Everything
7. Devotion
8. Island
9. Sacred
10. Infinity Baby
11. Otherside
