While Toronto duo Babygirl have gotten increasingly more difficult to Google since the release of that horny (but disappointingly not horny enough) Nicole Kidman movie last year, they return to us in familiarly dreamy woolgathering form on new song "After You" — their first new material since the 2023 EP, Be Still My Heart.
"Disarmed" is quite literally the first word vocalist Kiki Frances intones after being led in by a meandering electronic piano melody, punctuated by percussion and shock-absorbing bursts of pliable bass and keys.
The chorus soars out from the shadows of nostalgia of melancholic recollections of moments with someone who redefined what love can be and into the bright burst of luminosity that saturates the single's accompanying artwork, with open chords and twinkling synths swirling like dust in a sunbeam: "Caught me in your headlights, I forgot to move."
It's no trick of the light, though; it's merely the essence of Babygirl doing what they do best.