Babehoven – “Three Reds”

Upstate NY duo Babehoven are releasing their third studio album I See Them, I See Me next month. They've already released the singles "Lasagna" and "Blue Around You." Their new single, which dropped today, chases a different hue. It's called "Three Reds." Sometimes it feels like Babehoven's music is made of soft magic, transforming heavy concepts into playful ideas. "Three Reds" is no different. It's a bouncy folk song that details a game that Babehoven plays on the road. Its lyrics also twist together marks of infinite past lives, and the album's title. I particularly love the opening verse that goes: "There is life in many places/ Dig a hole, find the traces, there are markings on the stone and now they’re gone/ And when you see them by the grave you read their names, see the dates/ You know they’re gone." It handles death with a lightness, paying homage to the energy that came before us and will continue after we're gone. "’Three Reds’ is inspired by a game we play on tour — we gain points by counting cars of the same color passing by,” Maya Bon explained in a press release. “The song plays with synesthesia and the tension between concealment and exposure, sitting with the idea ...