Taken from the album Me And Ennui Are Friends, Baby.

Comprised entirely of minimal solo piano arrangements, Ennui is despondently clear-eyed and smirkingly self-deprecating, completing a trilogy of records that started with 'The Queen Who Stole The Sky' and her only outing to date featuring a full band, 'Please Daddy'.

Each record has followed Chadwick’s internal processing after a traumatic event, with Chadwick’s zeal for psychoanalysis front and centre. On Ennui, Chadwick presents an exacting intensity with her choice to pare back to piano and vocals. It's in this stark setting that she focuses on the attempt she made on her life in 2019.

Just weeks before the Ennui recordings in 2019, Chadwick endured the breakup of a long term relationship and attempted her own life. These events followed the deaths of her father and a close friend, and it’s from this weighty internal mire that Chadwick emerges throughout the trilogy. Imaginably, the result is staggeringly abject.

However, the incandescent nature of her will, knack for reportage and searing dark humour sets fire to the world she describes over these 12 songs. Lead single “Every Loser Needs A Mother” offers a glimpse into this dark humour, as Chadwick describes an undesired need to take care of a dependant man: “Well I laid out his clothes // And I laughed at his jokes // And I stumbled around in // Heels and no clothes // And I went to his hell // And he kicked me out.” The track touches on all-too familiar tropes, Chadwick’s voice commanding and wryly confessional over piano.

The methods Chadwick employed on Ennui contrast those of her previous full-band record, which thrust her into a very different world of rehearsal, planning, restraint and control as a functional tool. The result, 2020’s critically acclaimed Please Daddy, was her most aching and engaging achievement to date: “a raw, often unnerving experience,” which “delivers compelling and uplifting catharsis” (Mojo). Recording Ennui shortly after the Please Daddy sessions, Chadwick concludes her trilogy by returning to the most immediate compositional process she can muster, doing it alone, with less between her and the microphone than ever before. Joined by long time production collaborators, Ennui was mastered by David Walker at Stepford Audio and mixed and recorded by Geoff O’Connor at Vanity Lair - both expertly bringing scale, subtlety and intangible ascendence to this recording. On Ennui, Chadwick is free, there is nowhere for her or us to run from the need to very presently and repeatedly articulate her trauma until it is simply, “articulated out.”

Sarah Mary Chadwick - Full Mood

First single on Slothrust's debut record, Of Course You Do, on Ba Da Bing! Records this February 18, 2014. 

You can pre-order the CD / LP at http://www.badabingrecords.com/store/products/category/slothrust/ now!

Slothrust - Crockpot

Slothrust - Cubicle

Slothrust - The Couch Incident

Slothrust - No Eye Candy

Slothrust - Magnets Part 1

Slothrust - 7:30 AM

Slothrust - Homewreck Wifey

Slothrust - Magnets Part 2

Slothrust - Juice

Slothrust - Beowulf

From the upcoming Ora Iso record, Bathcat, on Ba Da Bing Records. Coming out October 14th, 2014.

Ora Iso

Katie Von Schleicher - Baby Don't Go

"Steady Waves" off Cross Record's Wabi-Sabi, out January 29th, 2016 on Ba Da Bing Records. Pre-order info here:  http://www.badabingrecords.com/store/cross-record-wabi-sabi-pre-order

Cross Record "Steady Waves"

"High Rise" off the Cross Record album "Wabi-Sabi" out January 29th, 2016 on Ba Da Bing Records. 
See the video here:  http://www.stereogum.com/1843915/band-to-watch-cross-record/franchises/interview/     
Preorder here: http://www.badabingrecords.com/

Cross Record - "High Rise"


From Wabi-Sabi on Ba Da Bing. More info: http://www.badabingrecords.com/store/cross-record-wabi-sabi-pre-order

Cross Record "Basket"

First song off Kane Strang's "Blue Cheese" out February 26th on Ba Da Bing/Flying Nun. Preorder here: http://www.badabingrecords.com/store/kane-strang-blue-cheese-cdlp-pre-order

Kane Strang "Full Moon, Hungry Sun"

The second track from the upcoming record "Blue Cheese" available on Ba Da Bing/Flying Nun. Preorder here: http://www.badabingrecords.com/store/kane-strang-blue-cheese-cdlp-pre-order  Or if you're in New Zealand: http://flyingout.co.nz/products/kane-strang-blue-cheese

Kane Strang "Things Are Never Simple"

The new Kane Strang album "Blue Cheese" is out on Ba Da Bing Records on Friday 26th. More information available here: http://www.badabingrecords.com/store/kane-strang-blue-cheese-cdlp-pre-order

Full Moon, Hungry Sun

Greyland

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Tiny Hazard - Sesame

From the new David Nance record "Negative Boogie" out July 14th on Ba Da Bing Records. 

If you preorder before June 15th, include a note naming any album you like that you want Nance to cover. We will choose a submission at random and send all preorders a download of that covers record around album release. 

Preorder here: http://grapefruitrecordclub.com/products?keywords=negative+boogie

David Nance "Negative Boogie"

from 'Shitty Hits' - out 7/28 via Ba Da Bing Records & Full Time Hobby (UK/EU)

Shitty Hits 

Katie Von Schleicher - Midsummer

The first single from "Fall Asleep," the debut LP from ANMLPLNET (Leah Wellbaum and Mickey Vershbow), out 4/20 on Ba Da Bing Records. Preorder here: https://grapefruitrecordclub.com/t/anmlplnet

Fall Asleep

ANMLPLNET - I Was Fucked By A Cloud

"Glad To Be Here," a new single from Katie Von Schleicher (following last year's album 'Sh***y Hits'), out March 9th on Ba Da Bing. Out on 7" May 4th.

Glad To Be Here

Katie Von Schleicher - Glad To Be Here

"Landfall" off Roy Montgomery's album Suffuse, out August 22nd on Grapefruit Records. Preorder the LP/CD (as well as the Special Edition version) at  https://grapefruitrecordclub.com/products/montgomery-roy-suffuse-lp-with-bonus-second-lp-option-pre-order

Suffuse

"Landfall"

Roy Montgomery "Landfall" (with Liz Harris of Grouper)

from "Gave In Rest," Sarah Davachi's new album out September 14th, 2018, from Ba Da Bing Records, Preorder here:https://tinyurl.com/y93h4zbl

Gave In Rest

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Sarah Davachi - Evensong

The new single off Olympic Girls, the upcoming record by Tiny Ruins on Ba Da Bing Records, out February 1, 2019

"Holograms" by Tiny Ruins off Olympic Girls (out Feb 1 2019)

New track from Lady Lamb the Beekeepers forthcoming album Ripely Pine out February 19 on Ba Da Bing Records! Pre-order here: http://www.badabingrecords.com/store/products/category/lady-lamb-the-beekeeper/

Lady Lamb the Beekeeper - Bird Balloons

One Day - Sharon Van Etten

Track from Xenia Rubinos' debut record "Magic Trix" on Ba Da Bing! Records. Available on badabingrecords.com/store now!

Popular tracks by Ba Da Bing Records/Grapefruit Records