Slaves' Isaac Holman announces debut album as Baby Dave with new single "29"

"29" is Baby Dave's first outing of 2022, following last year's "Gen Z Baby", and is accompanied by a Jude Harrison-directed video.

"There really isn’t much of a story behind this tune, but that’s kind of the whole point," Isaac Holman explains. "It’s about an uneventful bus journey from Brighton to Tunbridge Wells with my mate Lucy. I had my laptop with me and I decided to challenge myself to make a tune on the journey. This is that tune, about that journey."

The new single will feature on Baby Dave's debut album Monkey Brain, which features contributions from Damon Albarn.

"Monkey Brain is collection of tunes written from shortly after a debilitating mental breakdown at the start of 2019, up until now," Holman says. "Around half of the tunes on the record co-produced by Damon Albarn who also plays various instruments throughout. I don’t know where this project would be if it wasn’t for him and I’m so grateful to have had the opportunity to work with him and observe his wizardry. It was a proper game changer for me. Thank you for your patience, it shouldn’t have taken this long but ongoing issues with my mental health have made putting this record together incredibly challenging. Here we are though, we got there in the end. Can’t wait for you lot to hear it."