The process laid the groundwork for the creative approach that’d inform the rest of the LP: “It was this sort of hacking of everyone’s ideas and just destroying everyone’s past patterns, in order to create this new energy,” Hinz says.īaby Boys is just the essence, then: a drama-free distillation of ideas. “We have this joke that comes ups-I’m like, ‘My entire life’s work, just condensed into ten seconds.’ It’s so painful,” Stocker says, laughing. But Threesome marked the first time Baby Boys had free reign of a professional studio for their own use, allowing the trio to be fully immersed in assembling Threesome’s world.Įarly into the process Hinz, Luppen, and Stocker hit a wall and were stuck in a creative rut with “Maggot Water.” In figuring out how to move past it, Hinz took ten of Stocker’s voice memos from his phone and condensed them all down into the song’s quick intro.
The chemistry between the three in the studio has been well-documented outside of Baby Boys, too – Hinz, Luppen, and Stocker were the production team behind some of 2020’s most iconic breakout albums, including Samia’s The Baby and Miloe’s Greenhouse EP. Recorded at BJ Burton’s (Charli XCX, Bon Iver) Minneapolis studio after Burton left for Los Angeles, the entirety of Threesome came together in one week of 2pm to 6am studio sessions.
On the band’s debut full-length, Threesome, their enduring “yes” yields a snapshot of anarchic studio improvisation distilled into just ten tracks. Comprised of producers and multi-instrumentalists Caleb Hinz, Jake Luppen (Lupin, Hippo Campus), and Nathan Stocker (brotherkenzie, Hippo Campus), Baby Boys’ genre-bending mischief-pop is the amalgamation of busted-up iPhone memos and nonlinear lyrics colliding with erratic sonic landscapes.
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