Babyboii is back with the mellow, laid-back ode to his life in the Bronx, "Pelham Parkway," a track that manages to capture both the energy of living in NYC and some moments of quiet introspection. Delivered with soul over a warm production, the track plays like a late-night walk through familiar streets and offers us an exploration of New York via Babyboii.
"Writing the track was kind of just this natural thing that happened for me." In the music itself, that sense of ease comes through every note and vocal line delivered without strain but not without purpose. Babyboii brings with his performance a certain lived-in quality: songs and feelings that are too personal or too private to shoot straight into overproduction or theatricality.
"Pelham Parkway" seamlessly combines an understated groove with a delicate melody to create a mellifluous and subtly combative soundscape. It's a meditation on the dichotomy of Bronx life, bustling yet quiet, vibrant with action and slow in flashes of stillness and bonding.
This single primes the pump for his next album. It proves Babyboii's knack for crafting songs that speak beyond their local experiences, mapping individual geographies to a universal tale. Pelham Parkway is much more than a location; it is the heart that those locations create, making “Pelham Parkway” an incredibly powerful listen for anyone who knows what it means to find sanctuary in the beat of a city.