BABY QUEEN Debut Mixtape 'The Yearbook' today on Island/slowplay!

"Deadpan and hilarious...a perfectly harmonized power-pop chorus mocking all her misery... She sees both sides, and she knows pop is on the side of optimistic escape, even if she’s not.’’ The New York Times   "Effortlessly-catchy" Uproxx   "Baby Queen has an uncanny knack for synthesizing a wide range of influences -- bubblegum, alternative rock, grunge and synth-pop among them -- and injecting her deadpan, lightly sardonic perspective into durable hooks." Billboard   "pop’s buzziest new talent." DIY BABY QUEEN RELEASES DEBUT MIXTAPE THE YEARBOOK VIA ISLAND RECORDS/SLOWPLAY https://babyqueen.lnk.to/TheYearbook REVEALS NEW SINGLE “NARCISSIST”

Baby Queen rightfully ascends the anti-pop throne today with the release of her hotly awaited debut mixtape The Yearbook and new single “Narcissist,” one of five brand new tracks featured on it. The mixtape was included in NPR’s NMF “Top 7 Albums Out Today” and by Paste Magazine as a “notable release” for today.  Displaying characteristic wit and candour, Baby Queen says “Narcissist” is “an admission of my own narcissistic tendencies but also me trying to make sense of where those tendencies came from in the first place. I think women are told from the moment they are born until they can form their own opinions that beauty and vanity are the key to their success, and then they are berated when they are older for being self-obsessed or apathetic. Cosmetic companies want us to hate ourselves. There is money being made off our obsession with improving ourselves and our appearances. This song is just saying, 'Yeah fuck you, I am a narcissist, and I am self-obsessed, but why do you think that is?'” LISTEN/SHARE “NARCISSIST” HERE The ten songs that make up The Yearbook are born from personal experiences Baby Queen -aka South African-born, London-adoptee Bella Latham - had chosen to keep under wraps for years. Taking us as far back as 2018, they’re the 24-year old’s most diaristic work to date, chronicling her coming-of-age. “It’s an American coming-of-age film,” she says of the final project’s concept. “It feels confusing, happy, free, lonely… all of these things you go through when you are growing up.”

"a genuine, ubiquitous pop song...It must have been like when people heard the name Lady Gaga for the first time. Here, Baby Queen, more than any note or couplet in the track, is saying: I’ve arrived. Get used to it."   American Songwriter on “Pretty Girl Lie”  “‘Buzzkill’ (is) an electric, effortlessly cool single that balances its stream-of-consciousness snark with an arena-ready chorus; as we await new tunes from Lorde and Billie Eilish, make this alt-pop anthem a playlist add immediately.”   Billboard “10 Cool New Pop Songs To Get You Through This Week”   “Baby Queen can’t shake the ghost of a past relationship in her retro and romantic video for Dover Beach,’ and honestly, when the heartbreak inspires a bop this good, I’m not sure I want her to.” MTV   "Her lyrics are concise but get straight to the heart of the matter quite brilliantly....Her recent "Medicine" EP is a winning mix of satirical sugar-coated art-pop that at times sounds like Christine and The Queens colliding with Taylor Swift by way of Wolf Alice." Under The Radar “‘Buzzkill’ ...features grunge grooves feathered with pop sparkles.” Alternative Press