MY BABY Talk New Album, 2025 Tour And More

MY BABY have released their 6th studio album titled ‘Echo’ and will support it with a UK/European Tour in 2025. We sat down with the band here:

 

Who is in My Baby, how did you meet and what do you play?

Cato : MyBaby is me Cato on lead vox, bass and violin, my brother Joost on drums and vox and on guitar Daniel

Obviously Me and My brother grew up together and played in our family band

Daniel : I traveled from New Zealand to the Netherlands and met Joost through a mutual guitar teacher many years ago and within soon we formed a band which Cato, still in her teens, joined. After a number of different formations we started MyBaby as a three-piece in 2012

 

What is your earliest musical memory?

Daniel : For me it must be a Beatles mix tape my mom gave me. I listened to it incessantly on my Sony Walkman

Joost : My dad playing drums on my mums belly!!

Cato : Joost is special! he has memories from the womb.. haha

Joost : No all jokes aside. Its a second hand memory

Cato : I remember dancing in our living room to ‘ Do do do da da da’ by the police

 

When did you begin songwriting?

Joost : I must of been 10. I was in a grunge band with my sister

Cato : Perhaps 8 or 9 ? Me and my sister used to come up with ideas together

None of which I can remember now though Lol

 

You have released your latest single ‘Siren Song’. What was the story/inspiration behind the track?

Cato : We had this melody that felt rather epic or period piece, very much so suited to story telling we had already established the underlying thread of the album of reimagined mythology

The siren here is not a villain, but a voice bound to fate, caught between longing and loss. She sings not to destroy, but to connect, to pull others into her world, even as they slip away beneath the waves. Rather than being dangerous the siren is a tragic figure, misunderstood and incapable of communicating properly her true feelings and desires and intentions

 

You have released your sixth album ‘Echo’. How did you want to approach the making of the album?

Daniel : Our approach didn’t change greatly for this album. We did want to hark back to some of our earlier sound and include those blues and folk influences a bit more while still trying to reinvent ourselves. We had spent about a year cutting demo’s in our own studio in Amsterdam after which we collected the best ideas and set out to finish the songwriting of those tracks in the midst of that process we stumbled on this connection with mythology which become a big influence on the lyrics

 

Where did you record the album and who produced it?

Joost : We recorded a lot of the tracks at our own studio in Amsterdam

We ended up adding to that and recording a number of new tracks and finishing and mixing the album with producer Martijn Groeneveld at his studio, Mailmen studios

 

Do you have any interesting, funny or memorable stories from the recording sessions?

Joost : We recorded Cato sneezing during a vocal take and sampled and processed it and used that as an effect several times on the album it’s unrecognisable but now you know!!

 

Did you use any particular instruments, microphones, recording equipment to help you get a particular sound/tone for the record?

Daniel : We acquired an old RCA varacustic ribbon mic that worked wonders on some guitars. It definitely added a flavor we haven’t had on previous albums

 

Given your extensive back catalogue, is it difficult picking a setlist? Do you have a specific song selection process?

Cato : For a festival set we have a number of go to bangers

We focus on positioning and developing the new tracks but also try to add a few old tracks that we haven’t played a while it keeps us on our toes and quite often you’ll get a reaction from the crowd acknowledging some of the older material but it’s always an interesting process shaping the new songs in a live setting.

 

Which of your new album tracks hear you at your a) happiest, b) angriest and c) most reflective?

Joost :

interesting…

a) happiest

Smiley virus

b) angriest

not any outright angry songs on this album but perhaps Agree to disagree fits the bill

c) most reflective

less is more

 

Was it a difficult album to write?

Daniel : yes and no

We are a collective writing team but at times greatly differ on direction which can be challenging

Once we focused on some of the underlying themes and mythology it made it easier to write towards a certain direction we all felt

 

Who designed the album artwork?

Joost : A Serbian artist we found on Insta, Marko Vuleta

We liked his style and reached out

 

 

Where is your hometown and could you please describe it in five words?

joost :Amsterdam

A chill yet raucous city

 

How do you look after your voices?

Cato : I bubble with a garden hose to warm up

,a known technique

and use Chinese golden voice elixir when I have a sore throat

 

Do you have any live dates planned in the UK/Europe in 2025/2026?

Daniel : yes, we’ll be playing Shambala festival this August

And There is a big album release tour coming up

With plenty of UK dates in October and then throughout Europe in November/December

 

What two things do you hope to have achieved once you have left the stage?

 

Joost : Made the audience feel more free to express themselves

Daniel : Being free ourselves and creating something completely new while performing

 

Do you have any favoured stage instruments, effects, pedals, microphones etc?

Daniel : My main axe is a Fender Stratocaster and I use a Fender Tremolux and a twin reverb as my amps and favourite delay pedal is EHX memory man

Cato: I’ve always used an early 60ies Guyatone as my main guitar and frequently use a space echo on my vocals

 

You are given the opportunity to write the score for a film adaptation of a novel that you enjoy. Which novel is it and why?

Daniel : One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

I would think of our style as psychedelic period piece which perhaps would suit the magical realism of the novel

 

Who are some of your musical influences? Do you have any recommendations?

Daniel : I’m influenced by a lot of old blues

My playing recently has been influenced a lot by Debashish Bhattacharya, an Indian Slide guitarist

Cato : I love Jungle’s recent album ‘Volcano’

 

What makes My Baby happy and what makes you unhappy?

Joost: Playing live makes us happy

Pandemics, fascism and bigotry make us unhappy

Feature Image Photo Credit: Philine van den Hul

My Baby’s sixth studio album ‘Echo’ is out now.

Stream/Download Here: https://bfan.link/echo-26

For 2025 live dates, tickets and more information visit their official website: https://www.mybabywashere.com/tour