When obscure singer Pigbaby Zooms in from beautiful California, his camera is turned off:” I’m too stupid to put a mask on”, he says politely.
Pigbaby obviously wants to keep his privacy at all costs. He does but, generally, by wearing a full- size animal costume in all his press photos.
” There’s this iPhone game called PUBG, Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds”, says the Irish musician, who’s in the States to take a break from being in London. ” Me and my companion Max used to perform it for like, 12 hours a day. Pigbaby was my username”.
Pigbaby, a secular player, has been working hard on his comeback record. It was mixed by Preston actor and is scheduled to be released next month via brand PLZ Make It Ruins. It’s a profound, lo- bi project that revels in a kind of sad, DIY sound suggestive of other figurehead Daniel Johnston.
” Daniel Johnston is a favorite, definitely”, he says of his forces for the document. ” I’ve also always loved Genesis P‑orridge, Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV. Philip Glass is cool”.
Pigbaby started releasing songs correctly in 2022, while emerging from a split- up: ” I was extremely depressed again therefore, like everyone was, I guess. I often wanted to do something significant in my life, and one of those things was song. I’ve been creating art for a while, but I recently purchased a small music and started messing around with it. It’s helped me connect with people I now knew, but in a unique medium”.
Up then, his album EP Palindromes was met with worship admiration. One of Yves Tumor’s life performances at the Paris Kaleidoscope Festival in 2022 was described as the best performance they had seen that year by Yves Tumor. Pigbaby enthusiasts will be thrilled to hear, therefore, that he’s got a debut album ”in” the ”bag”.
” I’m surprised this first stuff is even taking off”, he says, laughing ( snorting? ). ” It’s just me fooling around, but I’m getting more confident. The second record shows a lot of improvement, it’s means more refined. Sometimes people text me and say,” I cried to this song now,” but it’s just a royalty-free emotional clarinet trial with a hairdryer behind it. Now, I’m really sitting down and writing songs. They’re my vessels for telling stories”.