E.PARKER is back and longing with her new queer pop anthem “Baby”

While the recent “Palazzo” saw the London-based artist switch her more understated arrangements for punchy club electronics and The Knife-infused experimentations, the new outing sees Bryony Parker return to a more intimate sound. Merging her dramatically swooning synth work with reverberating beats, “Baby” has more in common with the likes of earlier releases “Runs and Rides” and “Thighs” than the jazz-inflected poise of last year’s “Godspeed”, but like most of her releases in the past year, this is but the latest chapter in her infatuation with her muse.

Whereas “Girl” fantasised of the danger of jewel heists, Italian coasts, “WANTED” posters and wide-eyed awe with her partner, “Baby” recounts “sipping bottled beer”, smoking cigarettes, dressing up and chasing more achievable thrills. “Life of the party but she turns up alone / making all the boys and the girls fall in love in the club queue,” E.PARKER observes her romantic muse, absorbing enough inspiration to “stay at home and write songs on her Fender”. If the toils of such labour continue to be this grand, then it's with a selfish longing that this romance should continue.