Baby Velvet - Please Don't Be In Love With Someone Else (2022)

Produced by LA legend Kevin Ratterman and Melbourne royalty James Gilligan, Please Don’t Be In Love With Someone Else delves into the complexities of love, life, and adulthood across its 10 tracks.Baby Velvet looks inward as she reflects on heartbreak and making the same mistakes, self-doubt, and the darker realities of being a touring musician. An activist and musician, Crofts feels the world sparkle around her. Baby Velvet’s soaring harmonies and aching lyrics are gloriously gritty and heart-wrenching but always familiar with hard-won reflections on the artist’s life.

As one quarter of the indie folk group, All Our Exes Livein Texas, Crofts has toured the world in vintage gowns and rhinestone boots. The band’s debut When We Fall reached #6 on the ARIA charts, won an ARIA for Best Blues and Roots Album along with the band supporting theBackstreet Boys, singing on Kesha’s Grammy Nominated Album, and travelling across the USA with Midnight Oil.

Like scorpions who distinguish between light and dark to navigate by moonlight, Baby Velvet negotiates the low light of self-doubt with an innate sense of purpose. This is strident power pop that saturates and sparkles while sinking sharp teeth into the patriarchy. There is no turning back.