Today, Stephanie Babirak announces her sophomore album, Rotten Fruit, arriving June 12th, 2026. Alongside the news, she introduces lead single, “Hey Cain,” out March 27th. A NYC-based harpist, singer-songwriter, and composer, Babirak moves fluidly between the classical and contemporary worlds. Master’s-educated in harp performance, she maintains an active career in the classical sphere while simultaneously writing and releasing original jazz and art-pop music. Rotten Fruit expands Babirak’s recent indie songwriting work, placing the harp at the center of a contemporary folk-pop landscape rather than a traditional recital hall. Blending the instrument’s ethereal tone with guitar, bass, drums, and synths, Babirak reimagines the harp’s classical roots in an unexpected setting. The album was written in collaboration with longtime creative partner Peter Scoma. The result is a meditation on goodness, guilt, and the things we inherit—drawing from biblical imagery to explore disillusionment, love, estrangement, and what it means to be “bad.” Lead single “Hey Cain” opens the story and world Babirak builds across Rotten Fruit. Borrowing from the story of Cain and Abel, the song explores a particular kind of loss—the grief and disbelief that comes from letting go of someone who is willing to lose you. “This song borrows the story of Cain and Abel to explore the difficulty of accepting a very specific kind of loss,” Babirak explains. “It’s about the grief, sense of betrayal, and disbelief that comes from letting go of someone who is ok with losing you, and how strange it is to mourn someone who’s still alive… someone you still love very much. I was thinking a lot about the First Corinthians verse ‘Love is patient, love is kind’ when I wrote this song, and about how untrue that can be—love can be incredibly painful even when it’s real.” While the album draws from inherited language and biblical symbolism, its focus remains present-tense: What do we do when words and actions don’t align? What happens after clarity arrives? Rotten Fruit doesn’t offer easy resolution—it documents the slow shift from disbelief to acceptance, and the uneasy freedom that follows.
"Hey Cain" is out March 27th, followed by Rotten Fruit out June 12th. | 
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