Push Baby
Glitchy, self-aware indie pop that sounds like a boy band falling apart in a bedroom studio. Erratic, vulnerable, and brilliantly weird.
Glitchy, self-aware indie pop that sounds like a boy band falling apart in a bedroom studio. Erratic, vulnerable, and brilliantly weird.
Push Baby sounds like the colorful, chaotic aftermath of a pop machine exploding. After their previous life as the chart-topping Rixton, the duo pivoted into a sound that is intentionally messy, deeply personal, and sonically adventurous. It is music that embraces the 'glitch' - both in the production and in the human experience - mixing bright pop melodies with distorted synths and unexpected structural left turns.
What makes them truly distinctive is the tension between their polished vocal pedigree and their DIY, almost punk-like approach to electronic production. They use vocal processing not to hide flaws, but to create a sense of digital alienation and surrealism. It is a deconstruction of the pop star mythos, delivered through catchy hooks that feel like they might break at any moment.
Start with 'Mama's House' to hear the bridge between their past and their experimental present. It captures the frantic energy of starting over from scratch. From there, dive into the album 'Wow, Big Legend' for a full immersion into their technicolor, bedroom-pop-on-acid aesthetic.
Push Baby (stylised in all lowercase) are a British pop duo from Manchester, England consisting of singer Jake Roche and multi-instrumentalist Charley Bagnall. They are signed to their own indie label, Wow, Big Legend. In 2012, the band started as a four-piece band called Relics and then became known as the band Rixton from 2013 to 2019. Their debut single as Rixton, "Me and My Broken Heart" charted internationally and got to number one in the UK singles chart. Rixton went on a hiatus in 2016 and got back together as Push Baby in 2019 with the release of their debut song under the new name, "Mama's House". They then released the Woah EP and the studio albums Wow, Big Legend and Wow, That's What I Call Push Baby! before going into another hiatus in 2022.
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