Baths — aka Los Angeles musician Will Wiesenfeld — recently shared details of his new album, Gut, which is due out on Feb 21 via Basement’s Basement. The record offers a descent into the darker crooners of sexual activity and the consequences of questionable decisions. But on recent single “Eden”, he offers a rapturous reclamation of intimacy, a danceable opus using its idiosyncratic rhythms and melodies to provide ample illumination to its carefree expressions of love and affection. Clacking beats roam around while strings dip below the horizon only to rise later in full ascendency, wrapping his voice in a column of liquid pop atmospheres.
“A lot of Gut goes into more negative territory on sex, and the psyche, but to keep it honest I also needed a song that reflected the rapturousness of that experience,” explains Wiesenfeld. “Sometimes, amidst all my misgivings and self-flagellation, sex can be perfect. ‘Eden’ revels in the joy of my own insatiable sexual appetite and constant search for gratification. It is a reversal, finding god in the body, here on earth.“
He goes on: “In it, I demand that heaven come down to me, meet me on my terms, and ‘drink’ of me—not unlike a catholic congregation is instructed to drink the blood of Christ in the eucharist. ‘Slip into my ellipsis’ is a demand for the powers that be to share in my erotic fervor, in the feeling that is the closest I get in my adult life to a religious experience. Subsequently, the way that feeling affects me in a broader sense is when the rest of Gut comes into focus.“
Listen below.
Gut is due out Feb 21 via Basement’s Basement. You can pre-order the album here. Follow Baths on Facebook, X, and Instagram.
