Baby Cool – Everything

Grace Cuell writes songs as Baby Cool out of Brisbane, and “Everything” is the first single from her second album, Infinity Baby, due June 5 on Fuzz Club’s Bad Vibrations imprint. Cuell also co-fronts Nice Biscuit, but Baby Cool operates in a different register — more inward, more considered, somewhere between psychedelia, folk and kraut-pop.

The album was made in the hills of the Northern Rivers with producer Samuel Joseph, who has worked with King Gizzard and Family Jordan. Where Cuell’s debut, Earthling on the Road to Self Love, leaned whimsical, Infinity Baby sounds more grounded — songs moving through desire, cynicism, devotion, and surrender, always circling back to something like hope.

“Everything” sits at the exhausted end of that spectrum. Cuell describes it as embodying “the desperation that comes from trying to squeeze meaning from every moment… the way that a relentless pursuit for meaning can be an intoxicating and uprooting practice”. What’s interesting is how the music plays against that weight — hand-claps, a propulsive rhythm, psych-tinged and retro in the best sense. The arrangement does a lot of the emotional work that the lyrics describe rather than illustrate. I wasn’t expecting something this kinetic from a song about burnout, and that tension is exactly what makes it stick.

If Infinity Baby holds this balance across a full record, it’s going to be worth the wait. “Everything” earned its place in Week 12 on that contradiction alone.