Goth Babe has announced today his highly anticipated debut album, Lola, will finally be released this Fall. Since his breakthrough single “Sometimes” in 2018, Goth Babe (née Griff Washburn) has balanced his skyrocketing profile as a musician with staying grounded and living a scaled back lifestyle that allows him to pursue his love of the outdoors and the environment. Having spent time living in his car, a tiny house, and a camper van, all inclusive of moments of joy and unfettered freedom as well as loneliness and trauma, Lola—his new album, named for the sailboat on which he now lives— is a splendid confirmation of Goth Babe’s story so far, all those shimmering sounds and topsy-turvy life dynamics coiling into songs that look for respite and redemption. Pre-order for Lola is available HERE.
To celebrate the album’s announcement, Goth Babe has shared his newest single, “Bioluminescence”. With its glittering sequences and luxuriant synths, the song feels like a love song for an adventurous lifestyle, for having patience and faith in wanderlust and the wonders it reveals. Listen HERE.
Bioluminescence follows the previously released “Alone In The Mountains,” an earnest and endearing manifesto about work-life-joy balance, especially as Goth Babe’s profile continues to grow. Griff naturally hopes that people like this new Goth Babe material. Maybe they find a few minutes of respite from hustle culture or moments of sheer wonder. Those feelings, after all, are the point, the reason he makes music for himself and anyone who needs it, not the vaulting ambition of careerism. “There’s so much beauty in the world, obviously balanced by a lot of pain and suffering,” says Griff, who has endured the latter to experience and then offer the former. “I would love if these songs allowed people, even just for a second, to escape the weight and heaviness of the world.”