Surprise Baby is the Los Angeles-based project of musician and songwriter Sarsten Noice and producer Claire Morison. Described as rock and roll cowboy meets indie pop, the two, originally from Northwest Montana, use their long-standing relationship as friends and creative partners to craft an authentic and captivating sound.
Their upcoming EP is a result of Surprise Baby refusing to be pigeonholed and sees the two exploring a realm of different genres and sounds. Following the release of their debut single “Poison the Well,” “Motorcycle” is the second track from the EP and details a commentary on the feeling of escapism. It is a mostly fictional narrative on the desire to escape a relationship, specifically on a motorcycle heading to New York. Noice shares, “Call it a quarter-life crisis, call it fear of commitment, the feeling is that of running away. There is also a sentiment of not wanting your partner to worry over you, and making the unrealistic promise that you won’t die on the road. The fact that the narrator believes so deeply they won’t die while simultaneously desiring to be as close to danger as possible is the irony of the song itself.”
“Motorcycle” shimmers with muted, jangly guitars, mellow melodies, and celestial harmonies, creating an iridescent soundscape in which you can truly lose yourself.
Not afraid to speak her truth, Noice shares how she uses songwriting as a way to process her internal world and give intense emotions a way out of her body. She shares, “I try to create imagery that accurately captures a specific feeling and then allow myself to build lyrics in an abstract way, as opposed to straightforward storytelling. This I hope leaves the songs open to the listeners’ interpretation.”
The highly anticipated upcoming EP will see Surprise Baby continue to touch on themes surrounding relationships, self-growth, spirituality, and transformation.
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