Babehoven Share Dreamy New Single ‘Wave Has A Place’ Ahead of New Album
Babehoven are back with one final glimpse into their forthcoming album I See Them, I See Me, sharing the melancholic and soaring new single ‘Wave Has A Place’ ahead of the record’s release this Friday, September 18th via Double Double Whammy.
Led by Hudson, NY-based singer-songwriter Maya Bon alongside producer and multi-instrumentalist Ryan Albert, Babehoven have carved out a space somewhere between indie-folk, slowcore and shoegaze — crafting music that can feel simultaneously intimate, expansive and quietly devastating.
‘Wave Has A Place’ is no exception.
The new track explores the loneliness of watching someone exist in a world cushioned from consequences, with Bon turning ideas of privilege, perspective and emotional distance into something deeply personal.
“‘Wave Has A Place’ is a song about loving someone who is cushioned from consequences, and the loneliness of witnessing that from the outside,” Bon explains. “It’s about comfort worn as armor, privilege as identity, demanding honesty from someone who refuses to really see anyone else’s perspective.”
The song arrives as the final single from I See Them, I See Me, Babehoven’s third studio album and their most ambitious collection yet. Across 14 tracks, the record explores the idea of a “parallax view” — the notion that two people can experience the same reality while seeing something entirely different.
There’s an especially powerful context behind the album. During Babehoven’s first headline tour in 2024, Bon suffered paralysis of her right vocal cord and was unable to sing for much of the following year. Told that she might never fully recover, returning to music — and being able to sing with joy again — became a central part of the album’s spirit.
“I have so much gratitude now that I am able to sing again,” says Bon. “To not only sing, but to sing with joy.”
That sense of liberation runs through I See Them, I See Me, with the band deliberately embracing a looser, more immediate approach in the studio. For the first time, Bon and Albert opened up their recording process, working across four studios with engineers including Sam Evian, Kevin Copeland and Phil Weinrobe, who also co-produced the record. Much of the album was tracked live with a six-person ensemble, with the aim of capturing the energy and spontaneity of their time on the road.
The approach appears to have paid off. I See Them, I See Me has already been described by Rolling Stone as a “melancholic smasher”, while The FADER praised its sound as “melancholic and soaring, jangley and ornate.”
With ‘Wave Has A Place’ now out in the world, Babehoven’s third album is almost here — and everything points towards a record that finds beauty, uncertainty and even joy in a world that increasingly feels anything but straightforward.
Babehoven’s I See Them, I See Me is released September 18th via Double Double Whammy.
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